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.
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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 Cross-Tradition Connections
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