ayyubid dynasty

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(1173-1250) Kurdish dynasty founded by Saladin that ruled over Egypt, most of Syria, upper Iraq, and Yemen. After overthrowing the Ftimid dynasty, Saladin defended Palestine during the Crusades and made Egypt the most powerful Muslim state in the world. After Saladin's death the Ayybid regime became decentralized. In 1250 a group of mamlks (military slaves) exploited a lapse in Ayybid succession to take over the government in Egypt and to found the Mamlk dynasty. Minor Ayybid princes continued to rule in parts of the Syria for some years afterward
ayyubid dynasty