Tancred's Tower, known in Arabic as Qasr Jalud, was a large tower at the northwest corner of the Old City of Jerusalem, of which only meager remains were unearthed by archaeologists.
Remains of Tancred's Tower in front of the Ottoman city walls, and the Collège des Frères behind the walls (top)
Sharaf ad-Dīn al-Muʿaẓẓam ʿĪsā was the Ayyubid Kurdish emir of Damascus from 1218 to 1227. He was the son of Sultan al-Adil I and nephew of Saladin, founder of the dynasty.
The superstructure of the Al-Malik al-Muazzam Isa cistern, adjacent to the Dome of the Rock, Jerusalem