“In Sultān Ṣalāḥ ud-Dīn’s era, no Islamic scholar had more influence than ʿAbdul Qādir al-Jīlānī, and Ṣalāḥ ud-Dīn was s…

“In Sultān Ṣalāḥ ud-Dīn’s era, no Islamic scholar had more influence than ʿAbdul Qādir al-Jīlānī, and Ṣalāḥ ud-Dīn was strongly influenced and aided by him and his pupils who formed majority of the Ayyūbid army.”

𝐒𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐜𝐞: Saladin, Pearson Longman, p. 48.

Here is a painting depicting the surrender of the Latin ruler Guy de Lusignan to Sultān Ṣalāḥ ad-Dīn al-Ayyūbi ash-Shāfi’ī al-Ash’arī al-Qādirī, the liberator of Jerusalem and the King of Egypt and Syria, after defeating the Crusaders on July 4th, 1187. #History