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Sides
Saladin army
Commanders: Saladin (Salah al-Din Yusuf ibn Ayyub)
the crusader host
Summary
There was a great battle at Acre between the Muslims and the Franks who were besieging it. The two sides fought fiercely, in a clash unlike any heard of in those days, with charges and retreats and killing beyond counting on both sides. 1.
Connections
- Occurred at
- Acre
- Had participant
- Saladin (Salah al-Din Yusuf ibn Ayyub)
People and things also explored
Egypt army and fleet reach the Acre theater· The Franks take Acre and kill the captives· Ending the Ubaydid Khutba and Restoring the Abbasid Khutba in Egypt· the Ayyubid shuffle — al-Adil to Aleppo, al-Aziz to Egypt· The scare over the conjunction of six planets in Libra in 582 AH· The battle of the Ford of Sorrows (Jacob's Ford, 575 AH)· Battle of Arsuf· Battle of Hattin
Sources
- al-Kamil fi'l-Tarikh of Ibn al-Athir , p. 186
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islam.museum contributors. “the great battle at Acre — the sieges fiercest day”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/event/acre-great-battle-587/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-22.