By Islam Salah The MENA region is home to some of the most fascinating and well-preserved castles around the globe. These structures, built centuries ago, were homes for royalty, strategic strongholds ...

To register your interest please contact [email protected] providing details of the course you are teaching. The success of Islamic imperialism in the period from the conquests to the Ayyubid ...

A description in Latin next to one drawing identifies the cockatoo as a gift from a sultan of the Ayyubid dynasty, which was centred in Egypt. "Scholars, including me, were aware the sultan had ...

The Mamluk Sultanate ruled Egypt, Syria and the Arabian hinterland along the Red Sea. Lasting from the deposition of the Ayyubid dynasty (c. 1250) to the Ottoman conquest of Egypt in 1517, this regime ...

which was constructed by the founder of the Ayyubid Dynasty, Salah El-Din, more than 800 years ago. Nature lovers will also appreciate the wide selection of international flora found here.

This massive fortress located in Islamic Cairo was constructed in the late 1100s by Salah al-Din, the founder of the Ayyubid dynasty and an opponent of those involved in the Christian Crusades.