Al-Salih Ayyub, Sultan · Last great Ayyubid

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Al-Salih Ayyubالصالح أيوب

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The Ayyubid sultan whose slave-soldiers, the Mamluks, would soon replace his dynasty.

He bought large numbers of Turkish slave-soldiers and housed them on the Nile island of Roda. He died in 1249 as Louis IX invaded Egypt; his wife Shajar al-Durr hid his death to keep the army together.

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