Ayyubid administrative reforms in Egypt (1177)

Name: Ayyubid administrative reforms in Egypt (1177)
Start: 1177
End: 1178

Type Event Region Egypt Time 1177–1178

Around 1177, Saladin carried out administrative reforms in Egypt: reorganizing land distribution and taxation through the iqta system, strengthening …

Timeline

1177Cairo · EgyptSaladin implemented the iqta fief system, distributing Nile Delta land revenues to officers to maintain the army, while also tidying tax collection and cutting redundant Fatimid-era expenditures.
1177–1178Cairo · EgyptThe reforms strengthened the Sunni qadi system, supported Sunni religious academies and mosques, and replaced Fatimid Shia jurisprudence with Sharia law, consolidating the new regime's legitimacy ideologically.

Sources

Muslim Institutions of Governance in the Middle Ages — P. M. Holt (1991)
State and Provincial Government in the Ayyubid Period — Yossef Rapoport (2019)