The Levant was politically exposed during this period to many difficulties. And the rule shared by multiple powers. The Franks established four principalities for them in Edessa, Antioch, Tripoli, and Jerusalem. Since the beginning of the sixth century AH, the twelfth century AD, the decline of Seljuk sovereignty from the Levant began, and the emergence of small political units called the Atabegs, whose owners are called the Atabegs. So the Atabek of Mosul and its owner Imad al-Din Zangi, who was allowed by his son Nur al-Din, to establish a broad king in the Levant in the first half of the sixth century AH, and the Atabek of Damascus, which was founded by Tughtakin. While the Fatimids continued to control Palestine. And the coasts of Levant. The Ayyubids inherited what the Zankites had after that .. And both the Zankid and Ayyubid states took on the task of standing up to the Crusaders and unifying the Levant.
If the political situation in the Levant was like this, then the educational situation was not. Education has advanced in the region on a large scale. This was represented by the spread of specialized schools, the role of hadith, gorges, corners, and mosques, all of which carry the mission of spreading knowledge.
Ibn Jubayr was astonished when he visited the Levant in the year 580 AH of its scientific renaissance, and he was pleased with the large role of science and mosques in it, and its preference in this area over the countries of the East in general, and he advised the emergence of Morocco in Westernization in seeking knowledge, and the entry of the Levant to the rivers of its sciences and knowledge, where they find specific matters In which . He also decided that strangers who are science students are not included in it.