Medievalists.net » Ayyubids http://www.medievalists.net Where the Middle Ages Begin Mon, 07 Dec 2015 03:31:17 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.9.9 Ibn Wāṣil: An Ayyūbid Perspective on Frankish Lordships and Crusades http://www.medievalists.net/2014/01/27/ibn-wa%e1%b9%a3il-an-ayyubid-perspective-on-frankish-lordships-and-crusades/ http://www.medievalists.net/2014/01/27/ibn-wa%e1%b9%a3il-an-ayyubid-perspective-on-frankish-lordships-and-crusades/#comments Mon, 27 Jan 2014 22:48:51 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=47083 Ibn Wāṣil (604/1208-697/1298) was a relatively prominent scholar and administrator who had close links with the political and military elites of Ayyūbid- and early Mamlūk-period Egypt and Syria throughout his career.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2014/01/27/ibn-wa%e1%b9%a3il-an-ayyubid-perspective-on-frankish-lordships-and-crusades/feed/ 0 The Battle of La Forbie (1244) and its Aftermath http://www.medievalists.net/2013/06/06/the-battle-of-la-forbie-1244-and-its-aftermath/ http://www.medievalists.net/2013/06/06/the-battle-of-la-forbie-1244-and-its-aftermath/#comments Fri, 07 Jun 2013 03:01:58 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=41506 How did the kingdom’s leaders cope with the battlefield defeat? How did the settlements survive? Above all, what was the Military Orders’ contribution to the kingdom’s stability after the chaos following the battle?

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2013/06/06/the-battle-of-la-forbie-1244-and-its-aftermath/feed/ 0 The Battle of Arsuf, 7 September 1191 http://www.medievalists.net/2013/05/24/the-battle-of-arsuf-7-september-1191/ http://www.medievalists.net/2013/05/24/the-battle-of-arsuf-7-september-1191/#comments Sat, 25 May 2013 02:20:08 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=41343 Benjamin Z. Kedar asks what was Richard I's plan at Arsuf, one of the key battles of the Third Crusade?

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2013/05/24/the-battle-of-arsuf-7-september-1191/feed/ 0 The Indigenous Christians of the Arabic Middle East in an Age of Crusaders, Mongols, and Mamlūks (1244-1366) http://www.medievalists.net/2012/12/02/the-indigenous-christians-of-the-arabic-middle-east-in-an-age-of-crusaders-mongols-and-mamluks-1244-1366/ http://www.medievalists.net/2012/12/02/the-indigenous-christians-of-the-arabic-middle-east-in-an-age-of-crusaders-mongols-and-mamluks-1244-1366/#comments Mon, 03 Dec 2012 01:03:07 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=37697 The chronological period of study is highlighted by the usurpation of the Ayyūbid-ruled Sultanate by the Baḥrī Mamlūks, while the two most important political-military events in the region were the collapse of the Crusader States and the invasion of the Mongols. This thesis will examine how events impacted on the nine Christian Confessions, treating each separately.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2012/12/02/the-indigenous-christians-of-the-arabic-middle-east-in-an-age-of-crusaders-mongols-and-mamluks-1244-1366/feed/ 0 The Use of Fortification as a Political Instrument by the Ayyubids and the Mamluks in Bilad al-Sham and in Egypt (Twelfth-Thirteenth Centuries) http://www.medievalists.net/2012/02/22/the-use-of-fortification-as-a-political-instrument-by-the-ayyubids-and-the-mamluks-in-bilad-al-sham-and-in-egypt-twelfth-thirteenth-centuries/ http://www.medievalists.net/2012/02/22/the-use-of-fortification-as-a-political-instrument-by-the-ayyubids-and-the-mamluks-in-bilad-al-sham-and-in-egypt-twelfth-thirteenth-centuries/#comments Thu, 23 Feb 2012 00:25:10 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=29549 Beginning in 1170/1171, Salah al-Din built fortifications as the Fatimid vizier of Egypt. His considerations were primarily defensive in this period, following the Frankish campaign of 1168 that led to the siege of Cairo, and the Frankish-Byzantine naval expedition against Damietta in 1169.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2011/07/28/how-eager-he-was-for-the-victory-of-islam%e2%80%99-saladin%e2%80%99s-strategy-against-the-kingdom-of-jerusalem-1171-1187/feed/ 0 Ayyubids, Mamluks, and the Latin East in the Thirteenth Century http://www.medievalists.net/2008/11/21/ayyubids-mamluks-and-the-latin-east-in-the-thirteenth-century/ http://www.medievalists.net/2008/11/21/ayyubids-mamluks-and-the-latin-east-in-the-thirteenth-century/#comments Sat, 22 Nov 2008 01:32:26 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=1063 Examines the relations between Muslim states in Syria and Egypt with the Crusader States after death of Saladin in 1192, and how did this relationship with the decline of the Ayyubid dynasty and the rise of the Mamluks.

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