Scientific and literary activity in the era of the Ayyubid family

Abstract

Salah al-Din al-Ayyubi reigned Egypt in the year sixty-seven and five hundred, after which he controlled an important and vital region, which is the Levant, the Hijaz, Yemen and part of the countries of Asia Minor, and after his death it remained in the hands of his sons and relatives until the year forty eight and six hundred. The era of the Bani Ayyub was an era of revival of Islamic and Arab thought and culture, just as the era of political revival was represented by the expulsion of the Crusaders from Jerusalem and their expulsion from Egypt and the Levantine coasts after the Franks occupied them for more than a hundred years. The studies in the Ayyubid era focused on the military aspects, and the researchers dealt with the brightest poets, writers and scholars of this era without paying attention to the Ayyubid family itself, the writers and scholars in it, and the great works they have done in the field of science and literature. The family is one of the efforts in the field of authorship, founding libraries, the influence of poetry on its souls, its literary councils, its correspondence, and the most important poetry of it and its book.

Keywords

• ayyubid family
• ayyubid literature
• ayyubid state