AYYUBID DYNASTY SILVER DIRHAM____Founded Under Saladin____FOUGHT IN THE CRUSADES

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FRASCATIUS ANCIENTS
A BEAUTIFUL SILVER DIRHAM OF THE AYYUBID MUSLIM DYNASTY (UNDER AL-ZAHIR GHAZI FROM 1186 - 1216 AD ) .
The Ayyubid Dynasty was founded by Saladin. Under Saladin Egypt became the leading Muslim state in the region.
The Ayyubids are remembered for both fighting and negotiating with the Christian Crusaders.
Saladin battled and lost to Richard the Lionhearted of England at the battle of Arsuf in the Crusades.
THE SIZE IS 20.7 MM AND 2.96 GRAMS.
OBVERSE – Arabic script (Name of Ruler/Overlord) in six pointed star
REVERSE – Arabic script (Mint & Year) in six pointed star
AYYUBID DYNASTY
The Ayyubid Dynasty was a Muslim dynasty of Kurdish origins which ruled Egypt, Syria, Yemen, Diyar Bakr, Mecca, Hejaz and northern Iraq in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. Under Saladin, founder of the dynasty, Egypt became the leading Muslim state in the region. Saladin and his successors were also patrons of the arts and sciences, establishing religious schools, hospitals and introducing public education. They also built defensive fortifications, including the Cairo citadel. The Ayyubids are remembered for both fighting and negotiating with the Christian Crusaders.
The last Ayyubid ruler in Egypt was a woman, Shagarat Ad-Durr (Tree of Pearls), the first female to rule there since Cleopatra. What began with one of the most famous men in the world ended with one of the most famous women in Islamic history, although she is less well known outside the Muslim world.
SALADIN
The Ayyubid Dynasty was founded by Saladin, who, with his uncle Shirkuh, conquered Egypt for the Zengid King Nur ad-Din of Damascus in 1169. The name Ayyub comes from Saladin's father and Shirkuh's brother, Najm ad-Din Ayyub. When Shirkuh died, Saladin quickly consolidated power, repelling a Crusader attack on Damietta in 1169 and putting down a revolt of black African soldiers
In 1170, Saladin raided the Crusader districts of Gaza and Darum. The next year he took back Aila on the Gulf of Aqaba from the Kingdom of Jerusalem. Saladin's greatest accomplishment, though, was his decisive defeat of the Crusader states at the Battle of Hattin and conquest of Jerusalem in 1187. By the end of that year he had conquered virtually all of the Kingdom of Jerusalem.
Soon, however, Saladin was faced with the arrival of a major crusading effort from western Europe—the Third Crusade—led by the three greatest European rulers of the time, Frederick Barbarossa of Germany, Philip Augustus of France, and Richard the Lionhearted of England. The Crusaders, now under the unified command of Richard, defeated Saladin at the Battle of Arsuf, but were unable to recover the interior. Instead, Richard signed a treaty with Saladin in 1192, restoring the Kingdom of Jerusalem to a coastal strip between Jaffa and Beirut. It was the last major effort of Saladin's career, as he died the next year, in 1193.
Both Christians and Muslims admire Saladin for his chivalry and noble character. Richard the Lionheart gained Saladin’s lifelong respect as a worthy opponent. Saladin’s generosity and sense of honor in negotiating the peace treaty that ended the Crusade won him the lasting admiration and gratitude of the Christian World.
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