Quick Facts
- In full:
- al-Malik al-Ṣāliḥ Najm al-Dīn Ayyūb
- Born:
- 1206/07, Cairo, Egypt
- Died:
- November 1249
- House / Dynasty:
- Ayyubid dynasty
- Role In:
- Seventh Crusade
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al-Ṣāliḥ Ayyūb
Ayyūbid ruler of Egypt
Also known as: al-Malik al-Ṣāliḥ Najm ad-Dīn Ayyūb
al-Ṣāliḥ Ayyūb (born 1206/07, Cairo, Egypt—died November 1249) was the last effective ruler (reigned 1240 and 1245–49) of the Ayyūbid dynasty in Egypt.
Al-Ṣāliḥ’s campaign against the Crusader kingdom of Jerusalem in alliance with the Khwārezmians (1244) provoked the launching of the Seventh Crusade under Louis IX of France. Al-Ṣāliḥ died during Louis’s subsequent invasion of Egypt. The Mamlūk mercenaries to whom he had given extensive power overthrew his dynasty in 1250.
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