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Updated: May 10, 2025
At last his brother Adlil, gaining the ascendency, achieved a splendid reign not only at home, but also in the East, from Georgia to Aden. He died of grief at the taking of Damietta by the crusaders, and his grandson Eyyub succeeded to the throne. It was now that the Charizmian hordes fell upon Syria, and, with horrible atrocities, sacked the holy city.
Thus the Fatimite dynasty, which had for two centuries ruled over Egypt, came to an end. Saladin was son of a Kurdish chief called Eyyub, and hence the dynasty is termed Eyyubite. His capital was Cairo.
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