A branch of this dynasty lasted all the way to the late fourteenth century at Hisn Kayfa.
This dynasty dispatched a general who brought the Rasulid period to Yemen and built the first madrassa in Jerusalem. A branch of this dynasty lasted all the way to the late fourteenth century at Hisn Kayfa. This dynasty lost territory under al-Adil and al-Kamil, and was finally driven out of its chief territory following the Battle of al-Mansurah. It was founded by a man who allied with his brother Shirkuh while governor of Damascus, and it overthrew the Fatimids to take power in Egypt. For 10 points, name this dynasty which was in turn displaced by the Mamluks, a group of Kurdish ancestry whose first ruler was Saladin.
This dynasty dispatched a general who brought the Rasulid period to Yemen and built the first madrassa in Jerusalem.
{Ayyubid} Dynasty