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al-Mu'azzam Isa
al-Mu'azzam Isa was the Ayyubid ruler of Damascus from 1218 to 1227, a son of al-Adil and nephew of Saladin. During the Fifth Crusade he had the walls of Jerusalem dismantled in 1219 so that the Crusaders could not hold it. He quarrelled with his brother al-Kamil of Egypt and was a noted scholar of Hanafi law.
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