Wiki says Saladin's family was from Dvin( Armenia). What

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Also a contrast between how Ottomans governed their and the Arabs did would be nice.

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>>2714975
What is Jerusalem worth?

>>2716065
Nothing... Syke get fucked idiot, it's literally a pilgrimage sight of our prophet.

>>2714975
>>2714985

ok... first of all.... the Ottomans were not in power over the Turks at the time of Saladin, however there was a declining Seljuk presence. Saladin was the married cousin of Nur ah-din the son of Zanghi ah-din. His surname was not originally ah-din/adin, but rather inherited the succession through Nur adin. The ah-din Sultans were warlord/kings of the many territories within the middleeast. Though their lines of inheritance can vary from turkish, to balkan, to arab, and even Egyptian, they are seen as the general term of Saracen as it was said back in the time of the Crusades. During this time Turks and other Muslims of Anatolia and lower crusades states such as places like Damascus would wonder into the Byzantine territories as traders and travelers like no ones business. The idea that the Arabs and Turks and Fatimids were all buddies is highly false. the middleeast was heavily divided and it was more than likely that a muslim of Damascus could find better treatment in Byzantine lands or crusader states like Antioch or Tripoli than if they would go to places like Cairo.

Saladin "united" Islam in the Middle east for a time but the conflict was still there, just as there was still conflict between France and England or Norman lands and Byzantine Lands or HRE lands and everyone else despite all of these kingdoms fighting together in the Crusades.

>>2716273
late but thanks m8