Standard of Salah ad-Din Ayyubi
1. "The Ayyubids and Mamluks, who succeeded the Fatimids in Egypt and Syria, retained the association of yellow with the ruler." Jane Hathaway, A Tale of Two Factions: Myth, Memory, and Identity in Ottoman Egypt and Yemen (p. 97)
2. Eagle of Saladin Sketch from Cairo Citadel, Stanley Lane-Poole, "Saladin and the fall of the Kingdom of Jerusalem", 1898
3. According to the Ottoman researcher Evilya Çelebi, it likely originally had two heads. (Nasser O. Rabbat, "The Citadel of Cairo: A New Interpretation of Royal Mameluk Architecture")


			
			
Eagle of Saladin Sketch from Cairo Citadel
Salah ad-Din Yusuf ibn Ayyub