Editing Nablus (section)

===Ayyubid and Mamluk rule===
[[File:Interior view of Nasr Mosque.JPG|thumb|right|Interior view of the [[An-Nasr Mosque]], converted from a [[Crusades|Crusader]] church to a mosque in the 13th century]]
Crusader rule came to an end in 1187, when the [[Ayyubid]]s led by [[Saladin]] captured the city. According to a liturgical manuscript in [[Syriac language|Syriac]], [[Roman Catholic Church|Latin Christians]] fled Nablus, but the original [[Eastern Orthodox]] Christian inhabitants remained.{{Citation needed|date=December 2013}} Syrian geographer [[Yaqut al-Hamawi]] (1179–1229), wrote that Ayyubid Nablus was a "celebrated city in Filastin (Palestine)... having wide lands and a fine district." He also mentions the large Samaritan population in the city.<ref name="le Strange">Le Strange, 1890, pp. [https://archive.org/details/palestineundermo00lestuoft/page/511/mode/1up 511]–515</ref> After its recapture by the Muslims, the [[Great Mosque of Nablus]], which had become a church under Crusader rule, was restored as a mosque by the Ayyubids, who also built a [[mausoleum]] in the old city.<ref name="OCHA"/>

{{anchor|Battle of Nablus (1242)}}
In October 1242, Nablus was raided by the [[Knights Templar]]. This was the conclusion of the 1242 campaign season in which the Templars had joined forces with the Ayyubid emir of Kerak, [[An-Nasir Dawud]], against the Mamluks. The Templars raided Nablus in revenge for a previous massacre of Christians by their erstwhile ally An-Nasir Dawud. The attack is reported as a particularly bloody affair lasting for three days, during which the Mosque was burned and many residents of the city, Christians alongside Muslims, were killed or sold in the slave markets of [[Acre, Israel|Acre]].
The successful raid was widely publicized by the Templars in Europe; it is thought to be depicted in a late 13th-century fresco in the Templar church of [[San Bevignate]], [[Perugia]].<ref>{{cite book|page=169|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Xifq5OE7174C&pg=PA169|title=Crusader Art in the Holy Land, From the Third Crusade to the Fall of Acre|first1=Jaroslav|last1=Folda|publisher=Cambridge University Press|year=2005|isbn = 9780521835831}}.
{{cite book|page=271|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JfXl5kvabhoC&pg=PA271|title=From Saladin to the Mongols: the Ayyubids of Damascus, 1193–1260|first1=R. Stephen|last1=Humphreys|publisher=SUNY Press|year=1977|isbn=0873952634}}.
{{cite book|page=206|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3uFtzINjLAoC&pg=PA206 |title=The New Knighthood: A History of the Order of the Temple|first1=Malcolm|last1=Barber|publisher=Cambridge University Press|year=2012|isbn = 9781107604735}}.
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In 1244, the Samaritan synagogue, built in 362 by the high priest Akbon and converted into a church by the Crusaders, was converted into [[al-Khadra Mosque]]. Two other Crusader churches became the [[An-Nasr Mosque]] and al-Masakim Mosque during that century.<ref name="STF"/><ref name="Andersonp72"/>

The [[Mamluk Sultanate (Cairo)|Mamluk dynasty]] gained control of Nablus in 1260 and during their reign, they built numerous mosques and schools.<ref name="DNTA"/> Under Mamluk rule, Nablus possessed running water, many [[Turkish bath]]s and exported olive oil and [[Nabulsi soap|soap]] to [[Egypt]], Syria, the [[Hejaz]], several [[Mediterranean]] islands, and the [[Arabian Desert]]. The city's olive oil was also used in the [[Umayyad Mosque]] in Damascus. [[Ibn Battuta]], the Arab explorer, visited Nablus in 1355, and described it as a city "full of trees and streams and full of olives." He noted that the city grew and exported [[carob]] jam to [[Cairo]] and Damascus.<ref name="le Strange"/>