The Military Role of the Eastern Arabs against the Crusaders in the Levant During The Reign of Zenkid and Ayyubid Dynasty (521-648 A.H/1127-1250 AD)

Arab tribes settled in the Levant since a long time, probably in the third century BC, so they were not fara bout the important political and military events that had passed on the region in various historical eras.This paper will attempt to highlight on the military role of the Arabs against the crusaders in the Levant during the reign of Zenkid and Ayyubid dynasty (521-648 A.H/1127-1250 AD) which take responsibility for Jihad against the crusaders during the 6
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A.D Centuries, this role is not limited to exceptional participation to spying or make an ambush to the enemy army or guide the Islamic armies to desert paths, but they had formal military role during the period of resistance against the crusader entity in the Islamic east. The motivation of these tribes was not pragmatic goal only, as some researchers have seen, but there were other goals imposed on them the Arab and Islamic personality, and which prompt them to resist this crusaders entity. The research paper begins display for the most important tribes in the Levant during that period, and then talked about the important battles in which Arabs participated in evident role, and its impact on the battles results, and within his presentation of the is a reading of the image of the Arabian soldiersin contemporary sources and in the eyes of the Zenkidand Ayyubid leaders.