Mustansiriyah Journal of Arts

The feudal system was an economic pattern that represented an essential source of income for the Fatimid and Ayyubid countries, with the outlays of the feudal owners, taxes, agricultural and non-agricultural fees, and what they provided to the state and to the Sultan and the army from yields, horses, etc., thus we can say that the period of the Fatimid caliphate witnessed a strong emergence of private property Of agricultural land, and that the feudal system in the Ayyubid state is in some respects an instrument of administration and governance policy in the state in addition to the feudal lords who have the responsibility for security and preserving agricultural land and other responsibilities arising from their fiefdoms, b Feudalism took place during the reign of Salah al-Din al-Ayyubi when he seized the countries of Egypt and the Levant, and these feudal branches were distributed among members of the Ayyubid family on the one hand and the princes of the Ayyubid army on the other hand.