The Ayyubid-Crusader War is this atlas's label for the sequence of campaigns and battles between the Ayyubid Sultanate under Saladin and the Crusader states of the Levant, running from Saladin's rise to power in Egypt and Syria in the 1170s through the loss and partial recovery of Jerusalem. Its central turning point was 1187, when Saladin's victory at Hattin was followed within months by the fall of Jerusalem. It is not treated in the sources as a single formally named war with agreed bookend dates; historians instead describe these campaigns as a phase of ongoing Ayyubid-Crusader hostilities. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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Start YearNo single named war has agreed bookend dates in the sources; this entity is scoped from Saladin's early campaigns against the Crusader states (Montgisard, 1177) through the pivotal 1187 conquest of Jerusalem. End YearScoped here to the pivotal 1187 campaign (Hattin and the fall of Jerusalem); Ayyubid-Crusader fighting continued intermittently for decades afterward. CombatantsAyyubid Sultanate under Saladin against the Crusader states (Kingdom of Jerusalem and allied orders). 1 OutcomeAyyubid victory in the pivotal 1187 campaign: the Crusader field army was destroyed at Hattin and Jerusalem fell within months. 1 Classification
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Source Wikipedia: Saladin
The counterweight trebuchet was the dominant siege engine of the Ayyubid armies during the Crusader-era sieges.
Source Wikipedia: Siege of Jerusalem (1187)
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Source Wikipedia: Military history of the Crusader states
Source Wikipedia: Ayyubid dynasty
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1. Wikipedia: Military history of the Crusader states
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The conflict was generally fought between European Crusaders and the Seljuk Turks and their vassals.
campaign-phase summary
Key outcome: Crusader defeats at Hattin and Jerusalem siege (1187)
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The Ayyubid-Crusader War is this atlas's label for the sequence of campaigns and battles between the Ayyubid Sultanate under Saladin and the Crusader states of the Levant, running from Saladin's rise to power in Egypt and Syria in the 1170s through the loss and partial recovery of Jerusalem.
- Commanders and Forces: Army of the Kingdom of Jerusalem
View the Source 2. Wikipedia: Siege of Jerusalem (1187)
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The siege of Jerusalem lasted from 20 September to 2 October 1187, when Balian of Ibelin surrendered the city to the forces of the Ayyubid Sultanate under sultan Saladin.
Wikipedia: Ayyubid dynasty
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Saladin led a force of some 26,000 soldiers...into southern Palestine
Wikipedia: Saladin
WikipediaAssociated With: Saladin's Unification of Egypt and Syria, Lead sectionQuote, Associated With: Saladin's Unification of Egypt and Syria, Lead section
1137 - 4 March 1193), commonly known as Saladin, was the founder of the Ayyubid dynasty and the first sultan of both Egypt and Syria. A Sunni Muslim ruler of Kurdish origin, Saladin was an important figure of the Third Crusade and spearheaded the Muslim military effort against the Crusader states in the Levant.
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