“In Sultān Ṣalāḥ ud-Dīn's era, no Islamic scholar had more influence than ʿAbdul Qādir al-Jīlānī, and Ṣalāḥ ud-Dīn was strongly influenced and aided by him and his pupils who formed majority of the Ayyūbid army.”
[Saladin, Pearson Longman, p. 48]
[Saladin, Pearson Longman, p. 48]
The painting depicts the surrender of the Latin ruler Guy de Lusignan to Sultān Ṣalāḥ ad-Dīn al-Ayyūbi ash-Shāfi'ī al-Ash'arī al-Qādirī, the liberator of Jerusalem and the King of Egypt and Syria, after defeating the Crusaders on July 4th, 1187.
More than half of the army of Sultān Ṣalāḥ ud-Dīn al-Ayyūbī that liberated Jerusalem were Ṣūfī scholars from the Madrassa of Shaykh 'Abdul Qādir al-Jīlānī, whereas the others from the army were Ṣūfī scholars from the Madrassa of Imām al-Ghazālī.
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