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Era: The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks
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The Buyid, Fatimid and Seljuk Era · The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks · The Mongol and Post-Mongol Era Contemporaries: Muwaffaq al-Din Abd al-Latif al-Baghdadi · Abd al-Qadir al-Rahawi · Abd al-Razzaq ibn Abd al-Qadir al-Jilani · Abd al-Salam ibn Abd al-Qadir al-Jilani · Abdallah al-Yunini

Overview

A commander of Salah al-Din. He put him in charge of building the great wall around Egypt and Cairo in 572 AH. Al-Suyuti relates from Ibn al-Athir that its circuit was twenty-nine thousand and three hundred cubits by the Hashimi measure. ¹

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Participated in: Building the wall of Egypt and the Citadel

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Saladin (Salah al-Din Yusuf ibn Ayyub)· Building the wall of Egypt and the Citadel

Sources

Tarikh al-Khulafa — al-Suyuti (Dar al-Minhaj edition) , p. 684

Shadharat al-Dhahab — Ibn al-Imad al-Hanbali

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Saladin (Salah al-Din Yusuf ibn Ayyub)

Sultan of Egypt and Syria and founder of the Ayyubid dynasty, born at Tikrit in 1137 or 1138 and died at Damascus on 4 March 1193. He became vizier of Egypt in 1169, ended the Fatimid caliphate in 1171, united Syria, northern Mesopotamia, Palestine and Egypt between 1174 and 1186, and recovered Jerusalem on 2 October 1187.