Armed Forces and Units

Ayyubid Army

Medieval, Ayyubid Sultanate

Citation Formats

General Reference

War and Military Atlas. "Ayyubid Army." Accessed August 30, 2026. https://dev-military.interactiveatlas.org/armed-forces/ayyubid-army.

APA Style

War and Military Atlas. (n.d.). Ayyubid Army. Retrieved August 30, 2026, from https://dev-military.interactiveatlas.org/armed-forces/ayyubid-army

BibTeX

@misc{warandmilitaryatlas-ayyubid-army,
  author = {War and Military Atlas},
  title = {Ayyubid Army},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://dev-military.interactiveatlas.org/armed-forces/ayyubid-army},
  note = {Accessed August 30, 2026}
}

The Ayyubid army was the force Saladin united from Egypt and Muslim Syria. It included regular troops and mamluk (slave-soldier) units; in 1177 Saladin led a force of some 26,000 soldiers into southern Palestine. His general Qaraqush separately conquered Tripoli with an army of Turks, Kurds and Bedouin Arab troops, illustrating the force's mixed composition.

Facts

Force Type

Mixed regular and mamluk (slave-soldier) army 1

Founded Year

1171 1

Country

Ayyubid Sultanate 1

Cross-Tradition Connections