Why did the Ayyubid Empire Collapse?
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Yet thiss crisis also produced the Kurds greatest son, Salah - ed - Din ( or Saladin ), born in 1137 at Tikrit. Being the Muslim leader who recaptured Jerusalem from the Crusaders, he did not accentuate his Kurdishness; Saladin was not himself a Kurdish tribal leader, as were many of his generals, and the armies he commanded were predominantly Turkish - ( 67 ). -
Eller, J, 2009. From culture to ethnicity to conflict. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, p. 155.\r\n
Date: 2023-12-16
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knowledgia
Saladin and his army conquered Jerusalem and made war in the Middle East as an alien power - alien in religion from the Christian majority and both ethnically and culturally alien from the indigenous Greek-, Armenian-, Syriac- (that is, Aramaic-) and Arabic-speaking population. Saladin himself was a Turkified Kurd who began his career serving the Seljuk Turks, who were invaders from Central Asia, and his 19 army at Jerusalem was Turkish, though with a Kurdish element. The Turks looked down on the Arabs whose rule in the Middle East they had replaced, and the Arabs viewed the Turks with bitter contempt; nor is there much evidence of the Arab knights learning Turkish, the language of their military overlords, nor that the Turks learned much Arabic' 20 -
Haag, M, n. d. The tragedy of the Templars.
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Saladin and his army conquered Jerusalem and made war in the Middle East as an alien power - alien in religion from the Christian majority and both ethnically and culturally alien from the indigenous Greek-, Armenian-, Syriac- (that is, Aramaic-) and Arabic-speaking population. Saladin himself was a Turkified Kurd who began his career serving the Seljuk Turks, who were invaders from Central Asia, and his 19 army at Jerusalem was Turkish, though with a Kurdish element. The Turks looked down on the Arabs whose rule in the Middle East they had replaced, and the Arabs viewed the Turks with bitter contempt; nor is there much evidence of the Arab knights learning Turkish, the language of their military overlords, nor that the Turks learned much Arabic' 20 -
Haag, M, n. d. The tragedy of the Templars.
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-JojoBojob
Saladin and the Ayyubids were pretty cool and marks perhaps the height of Kurdish power in the region.
Quite impressed by the fact that you pointed out the Kurdish part of his identity and ethnicity, since there has been a lot of effort by turks and arabs in undermining this key aspect to further their own nationalistic narratives and undermining Kurdish history.
Mad respect
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Saladin and the Ayyubids were pretty cool and marks perhaps the height of Kurdish power in the region.
Quite impressed by the fact that you pointed out the Kurdish part of his identity and ethnicity, since there has been a lot of effort by turks and arabs in undermining this key aspect to further their own nationalistic narratives and undermining Kurdish history.
Mad respect
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-najmat-ad-deen
The Ayyubids should have remained allies with the kipchak mamluk slaves that Salih recruited. I feel like the Ayyubids and Mamluks could've been stronger together. I think I blame Salih's son Turanshah for the fall of this empire: (
Love the Ayyubids
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The Ayyubids should have remained allies with the kipchak mamluk slaves that Salih recruited. I feel like the Ayyubids and Mamluks could've been stronger together. I think I blame Salih's son Turanshah for the fall of this empire: (
Love the Ayyubids
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-afaqjamali2287
All of these empires declined because of one family rule. If there were elections then they could have survived like Rashiduns
The caliphate only declined when UMMAYADS and ABBASIDS turned it into one family dictatorship.
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All of these empires declined because of one family rule. If there were elections then they could have survived like Rashiduns
The caliphate only declined when UMMAYADS and ABBASIDS turned it into one family dictatorship.
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-bawarali4442
Mr. Salahaddin Ayubi, Kurdish, As a Kurd, I am a good expert in my history, the history that you wrote is all the mistakes of Salahaddin who died of illness, not killed him until he was left, his country was warm with greatness
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Mr. Salahaddin Ayubi, Kurdish, As a Kurd, I am a good expert in my history, the history that you wrote is all the mistakes of Salahaddin who died of illness, not killed him until he was left, his country was warm with greatness
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knowledgia
That is the very reason why the map maker of the middle east, the Sycte Picot, a British and French entity does not give land to the Kurdish people, the conqueror of the British and French cruzaders
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That is the very reason why the map maker of the middle east, the Sycte Picot, a British and French entity does not give land to the Kurdish people, the conqueror of the British and French cruzaders
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-just. whatever.
Knowledgia, I would like to thank you for mentioning he was a Kurd. I am of Kurdish decent and it's also nice you resist the Turk and Arab attempt to suppress Kurdish history.
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Knowledgia, I would like to thank you for mentioning he was a Kurd. I am of Kurdish decent and it's also nice you resist the Turk and Arab attempt to suppress Kurdish history.
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-OMOMOMOMOM190
So many pathetic people in the commentary fighting about salahuddins origins. i honestly couldnt care less if he was chinese, he was a muslim and thats all that mattered.
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So many pathetic people in the commentary fighting about salahuddins origins. i honestly couldnt care less if he was chinese, he was a muslim and thats all that mattered.
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-Knight860
It's almost ironic that had Richard the Lionheart stayed around in the Holy Land a few more months, he would of won by default as a result of Saladin's death.
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It's almost ironic that had Richard the Lionheart stayed around in the Holy Land a few more months, he would of won by default as a result of Saladin's death.
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-gideonhorwitz9434
Even though it-s mostly desert why didn-t the Auyubids try to control most of the Arabian peninsula the way the rashadun Abbasid and Umayyads did.
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Even though it-s mostly desert why didn-t the Auyubids try to control most of the Arabian peninsula the way the rashadun Abbasid and Umayyads did.
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-abdirahimomar268
so mamluks and ayyubids went to baghdad to be given the title of SULTAN rather than gathering Forces to defend it from the Mongols.
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so mamluks and ayyubids went to baghdad to be given the title of SULTAN rather than gathering Forces to defend it from the Mongols.
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-johnirby8847
Both Christians and Muslims spent so much time thinking the threat was each other. they were not prepared for the Mongols or Vikings.
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Both Christians and Muslims spent so much time thinking the threat was each other. they were not prepared for the Mongols or Vikings.
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knowledgia
we should sent geneticists to Salah Al-Din's grave and then conclude his ethnicity. Everyone is fighting about his ethnic origins.
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we should sent geneticists to Salah Al-Din's grave and then conclude his ethnicity. Everyone is fighting about his ethnic origins.
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knowledgia
This empire is FAMOUS for being multi-ethnic and high levels of mix race and mix ethnic people in Saladin's line and his armies.
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This empire is FAMOUS for being multi-ethnic and high levels of mix race and mix ethnic people in Saladin's line and his armies.
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-shadowhunter9855
Conquering jerusalem was a bad luck to be honest rome conquer jerusalem and there empire fall same as the ayubbid empire
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Conquering jerusalem was a bad luck to be honest rome conquer jerusalem and there empire fall same as the ayubbid empire
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-adam-ue4st
i just love how suddenly the word palestine suddenly came about in 1253 when there was no such thing all through history.
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i just love how suddenly the word palestine suddenly came about in 1253 when there was no such thing all through history.
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-Knowledgia
Do you think The Ayyubids could have resisted and overcome the Mamluk revolt and the Mongol Invasion? - And if yes, how?
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Do you think The Ayyubids could have resisted and overcome the Mamluk revolt and the Mongol Invasion? - And if yes, how?
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-imranah4660
Just a polite request, at least try to pronounce the names correctly. Its not Saladin, its Salahuddin
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Just a polite request, at least try to pronounce the names correctly. Its not Saladin, its Salahuddin
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-hanzup4117
I had no idea that the Mongols got so close to Jerusalem. Thank God they didn't reach it and sack it.
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I had no idea that the Mongols got so close to Jerusalem. Thank God they didn't reach it and sack it.
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