Saladin ends the Fatimid Caliphate
After two Shia centuries, Egypt returns to Sunni rule
The Kurdish commander Saladin, vizier to the last Fatimid caliph al-Adid, had the Friday prayer said in the name of the Abbasid caliph after al-Adid's death. The Shia Fatimid Caliphate, which had ruled Egypt since 969, came to an end. Saladin founded the Ayyubid dynasty and united Egypt and Syria.
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Meanwhile around the world (±25 years)
Europe
- 1163–1345 Notre-Dame de Paris begun — 8 years earlier
Eastern Europe & Russia
- 1185 Prince Igor's campaign — 14 years later
Asia
- 1192–1333 First shogunate in Japan — 21 years later
- 1192 Second Battle of Tarain — 21 years later
Alive at the time
- Saladin (aged 34)
- Genghis Khan (aged 9)
- Hildegard of Bingen (aged 73)
- Andrey Bogolyubsky (aged 60)
- Averroes (Ibn Rushd) (aged 45)
- Henry II (aged 38)
- Minamoto no Yoritomo (aged 24)
- Vsevolod the Big Nest (aged 17)
- Richard the Lionheart (aged 14)
- Philip II Augustus (aged 6)