Do contemporary Kurdish caps (klaw) and the headdress used by the Ayyubids have any similarities? Yes, indeed. The Mamluk historian Al-Qalqashandi makes reference to the Ayyubids' headdress.
Al Qalqashandi (15th-century):
Their costumes differ depending on which part of the body they cover. As for the headgear, it was explained earlier that the Ayyubids used to wear yellow caps (kalawtāt) without turbans and that they hadhair locks (dhawā'ib sha'r) that they loosened behind their backs. In his reign, al-Ashraf Khalīl b. Qalāwūn changed the colour of the caps to red instead of yellow, and ordered wearing turbans upon them. This remained the case until al-Malik al-Nāşir Muhammad b. Qalāwūn went on pilgrimage towards the end of his reign and shaved his head, so everyone shaved theirs, and they continue to do so until now. Their turbans used to be small, until they were enlarged in the reign of al-Ashraf Sha bān b. Husayn, which resulted in a more beautiful and finer shape [of turbans] that remains [the case] up to our times.
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