In total, 800 Turkish and Kurdish Ayyubid warriors were deployed to conquer Almohad territory. The Ayyubids formed alliances along the way, reaching the outskirts of Qayrawan. The plan was only disrupted by an army of 20,000 Almohads.
The crusades were a disguised gift to the Ayyubids' neighbours. The unrealized goals of the early Ayyubid dynasty were to extend in all directions. If the scheme had been effective, the Abbasid caliphate would not have remained intact, either. The Almohad episode is another piece in realizing the distorted interpretation of Saladin, and that it is not limited to the popular level, but also true for the "academic literature".
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