Al-Mu'azzam

Timeline

1. 1221–1227Damascus · SyriaIn the 1220s al-Mu'azzam ruled southern Syria from Damascus, coordinating defense against the crusaders with the Egyptian sultan al-Kamil; in 1219 he ordered the demolition of the walls of Jerusalem to prevent their use by the crusaders. He died in Damascus in November 1227, and the question of the inheritance of his territories immediately became a focus of internal Ayyubid strife.