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Entries in this chronological list of Muslim military leaders are accompanied by dates of birth and death, branch of Islam, country of birth, field of study, campaigns fought and a short biographical description. The list includes notable conquerors, generals and admirals from early Islamic history to the 21st century.
Saladin was a Muslim military leader who founded the Ayyubid dynasty and led Islamic forces during the Crusades.
View history; Tools. Tools. move to sidebar hide. Actions Read; Edit; ... This is a list of the principal leaders of the Crusades, classified by Crusade. Crusader ...
The Crusades were a series of religious wars initiated, supported, and sometimes directed by the Christian Latin Church in the medieval period.The best known of these military expeditions are those to the Holy Land between 1095 and 1291 that had the objective of reconquering Jerusalem and its surrounding area from Muslim rule after the region had been conquered by the Rashidun Caliphate ...
Other current researchers include Christopher Tyerman (born 1953) whose God's War: A New History of the Crusades (2006) [208] is regarded as the definitive account of all the crusades. In his An Eyewitness History of the Crusades (2004), [209] Tyerman provides the history of the crusades told from original eyewitness sources, both Christian and ...
The most important sources written during or shortly after the events are: The al-Nawādir al-Sultaniyya wa'l-Maḥāsin al-Yūsufiyya ("Anecdotes of the Sultan and Virtues of Yusuf", in 2001 translated by D. S. Richards as The Rare and Excellent History of Saladin), an Arabic biography of Saladin written by the Kurdish chronicler Baha ad-Din ibn Shaddad who served in Saladin's camp and was an ...
The Concise History of Humanity, by Abu al-Fida. Summarized in RHC Historiens orientaux, Volume 3.1 [100] Kitāb al-Khiṭaṭ al-Maqrīzīyah, by al-Maqrizi. [109] Portions on the Seventh Crusade excerpted in the Internet History Sourcebook [110] and in Chronicles of the Crusades. [111] History of the Ayyubit and Mameluke Rulers, by al-Maqrizi ...
The History of Jerusalem during the Kingdom of Jerusalem began with the capture of the city by the Latin Christian forces at the apogee of the First Crusade. At that point it had been under Muslim rule for over 450 years. It became the capital of the Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem, until it was again conquered by the Ayyubids under Saladin in 1187.