Saladin and the Recovery of Jerusalem in 583 AH / 1187 CE
A widely documented station in the sources: entry into Jerusalem in early October 1187 after the Battle of Hattin that same year.
The recovery of Jerusalem in 583 AH / 1187 CE is among the stations most present in Islamic and Arab memory. Sources report that the city entered the authority of Saladin after the Battle of Hattin in the same year, and 2 October 1187 CE circulates in modern writing as a date of entry into the city.
What do we establish, and what do we leave to the references?
What is fixed in the educational narrative here is the year and the event as part of the Ayyubid layer in the city’s history. Details of arrangements inside the Haram and names of those who held offices are reviewed in specialized historical sources and are not compressed into a daily card.
Closing
Daily memory is a reminder—not critical verification. For expansion, see the History of Jerusalem page and books of Ayyubid history.
For further reading
- Later Ayyubid sources and general history books.
- Modern studies of Jerusalem in the sixth century AH / twelfth century CE.