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Saladin army
Commanders: Saladin (Salah al-Din Yusuf ibn Ayyub)
the Franks of al-Karak
Summary
In Rabi al-Akhir, Salah al-Din besieged al-Karak and set up siege engines. The Muslims took the outer town, but the fortress remained, with a moat between them about sixty cubits deep. He built sheds of timber and mudbrick under which men advanced to fill in the moat, while his catapults fired day and night. Those inside appealed to the Franks, who gathered and marched to their relief, so Salah al-Din turned onto their route to form his ranks against them. 1
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- Occurred at
- al-Karak
- Had participant
- Saladin (Salah al-Din Yusuf ibn Ayyub)· Nur al-Din Muhammad ibn Qara Arslan
People and things also explored
Prince Reynald's treachery — the Kerak lord breaks the truce· Ending the Ubaydid Khutba and Restoring the Abbasid Khutba in Egypt· the great battle at Acre — the sieges fiercest day· 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. 127-128
Cite this page
islam.museum contributors. “Saladin's Karak siege — the rabd taken, the sixty-cubit ditch”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/event/saladin-karak-raid-580/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-22.