A HISTORICAL ANCIENT ISLAMIC SILVER COIN OF SULTAN SALAH ED-DIN AYYUBI, FOUNDER OF THE AYYUBID DYNASTY & THE CONQUEROR OF THE CRUSADERS & FATIH OF JERUSALEM ( QUDS ).ISLAMIC AYYUBIDS DYNASTY. al-Nasir Salah ed-Din Yusuf bin Ayyub (Saladin). Reign 1171-1193 AD. AR silver Dirham. Mint Halab (Syria) mint. Dated AH 580 (1184 AD).Weight: 2.9 grams, the coin is finest condition.

Salah Ed-din (known as Saladin in the west) was an outstanding military leader with a powerful army at his command. He declared jihad (holy war) against the Crusaders, and in 583h / 1187 CE, Saladin inflicted a disastrous defeat on them at the Horns of Hattin on the heights to the west of Tiberias.Exhausted and demoralised, the Christian forces surrendered Acre and much of the coast of Gaza. Finally Saladin achieved the prize he had set out to win, when he regained the city of al-Quds (Jerusalem) for the Muslims.