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Al-Mu'azzam Isa

Al-Mu'azzam Isa

1176 CE1227 CE · Damascus

Al-Mu'azzam Isa (1176-1227) was a son of al-Adil I who governed Damascus and the Ayyubid lands of Syria and Palestine, ruling in his own name from 1218 to 1227. He was known as a man of letters and a patron of scholarship, and he undertook building works within the Haram al-Sharif in Jerusalem. During the Fifth Crusade he ordered the dismantling of Jerusalem's fortifications to deny them to the Crusaders. He died in 1227.

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