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Acre

عكا

Acre on the Syrian coast in jund al-Urdunn — the chief maritime fortress of the Crusader wars; Salah al-Din took it the Wednesday after Hattin (583), and the Franks retook it on Friday 17 Jumada II 587 after a two-year siege, killing the Muslim prisoners on 27 Rajab 1.

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The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks
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Akka (Acre): a town on the coast of al-Sham, in the district of Jordan. Ibn al-Athir describes it as the mother of the coastal frontier and the impregnable fortress of Islam in the age of the Crusades. 2

The conquest and the siege

Salah al-Din Yusuf ibn Ayyub conquered it on a Wednesday after the battle of Hattin, in the year 583 AH. 2

The Franks then besieged it for two years and seized it on Friday, the seventeenth of Jumada al-Akhira in the year 587 AH. Ibn al-Athir reports that they killed the Muslim prisoners there on Tuesday, the twenty-seventh of Rajab. 3

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the great battle at Acre — the sieges fiercest day· Egypt army and fleet reach the Acre theater· The Franks take Acre and kill the captives· The Death of Godfrey, Lord of Jerusalem, at Acre, 494

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Saladin (Salah al-Din Yusuf ibn Ayyub)· al-Malik al-Aziz Imad al-Din Uthman ibn Salah al-Din· the great battle at Acre — the sieges fiercest day· Egypt army and fleet reach the Acre theater· The Franks take Acre and kill the captives· The Death of Godfrey, Lord of Jerusalem, at Acre, 494

Sources

  1. al-Kamil fi'l-Tarikh of Ibn al-Athir , p. 149, 205-207
  2. al-Kamil fi'l-Tarikh of Ibn al-Athir , p. 149
  3. al-Kamil fi'l-Tarikh of Ibn al-Athir , p. 205-207
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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.