The Political and Intellectual Impact of the women of the Ayoubi House in the Levant and Egypt

Abstract

The research tackles the political and intellectual impact of the women of the Ayoubi Home in the Levant and Egypt. The study of the characters in the Islamic history is considered of important issues, for the important role these characters played in the political and intellectual life of Arab Islamic state, especially women of sultans and princes who ruled the Islamic countries in various territories. The women had a prominent role and contribution in the course of Life through their participations in various aspects of that life. They had great achievements which could be proud of. The importance of these achievements and business was the reason behind the selection for this study of the women of the Ayoubi House. This is because of the important roles the women played, although history did not do justice to their achievements but only mentioned few signals for some of these achievements, both in the women's personal lives or in their political or intellectual impact. In addition, there were no study specialized in mentioning the roles of the women of the Ayoubi House, thus, our research is marked The Political and Intellectual impact of the women of the Ayoubi House in the Levant and Egypt to show the roles played by the women of the Ayoubi House, whether from the Ayoubian descent, or is wives of one of the Ayoubian sultans or princes. The research adopted the scholar historical approach in the treatment of the subject taking into account the historical sequence in the search, and pursuing the scientific method of dealing with historical narrations. It envisaged the accuracy in identifying the narrations that expressed the roles of the women of the Ayoubi House, trying to take the closest narrations to the historical event in time and place because this has an important impact on the sincerity of the narration. As for the difficulties, the researcher has faced the problem of lack of information presented in the references. These references did not mean and did not pay great importance to the achievements made by those honorable women who had a big role in running the governmental affairs and who played important political roles in a critical historical era, as well as they had a role in the energizing the scientific movement in their days. The information was too limited, despite of its littleness, the information demonstrates their importance and makes us respect those achievements and be proud of them. The study is divided into three sections, in the first section, I tackled the biography of the women of the Ayoubi house and also discussed a part of the political impact of many of these women in the governance. I presented some reference to the biography and personal lives of these women, and this has a significant impact reflected on the political and intellectual activities in the community. The second section dealt with the intellectual impact of these women through creating the educational schools where the finest scholars of the Islamic world had taught. These schools had contributed in raising the Muslim community with scientific and wide results of knowledge. I treated in the third section the impact of the women of the Ayoubi House in establishing Khanqahat, Al-Robet and AL-Torab (places and institutions for education and worship) as part of their intellectual activities. These institutions with other schools had a significant impact in education and worship and also in presenting services for the Islamic community at that time. The research is ended with a conclusion included the most important findings of the research, presenting the primary references relevant. I hope I have been able to highlight an important aspect of the Islamic nation and its civilizational achievements in the research of the heritage and legacy of the Ayoubian period.