Saladin becomes Egypt's sole ruler, returning Egypt…

Saladin becomes Egypt's sole ruler, returning Egypt to official Sunni orthodoxy (despite the religious unorthodoxy of the Ismaili Fatimids, most of the dynasty’s subjects have remained orthodox Muslims).

Although non-Muslms are again subject to discrimination, Jewish intellectual life flourishes under Ayubbid rule with more than seven thousand Jewish families in Egypt, among them that of Maimonides, whose fame as a physician has spread rapidly; he soon becomes the court physician to Saladin.