The deposition of the last Fatimid caliph(1171) has brought Egypt back in to the Sunni fold. It promptly passed on to the hands of Saladin and the Kurdish Ayyubid dynasty. Crushing the crusaders,they established regimes in the region comparable to those of the Seljuqs (the rulers of Anatolia in the eleventh and twelfth centuries). Considered as the family's personal property, the state was dismembered in to the series of independent kingdoms, destroying whatever remained of the university of the caliphate. In this period the arts followed the lines set down during the Fatimd era: the result, particularly in architecture, was a pared-down, implacable style enriched reminiscences from the Seljuq age, yet receptive to elements borrowed from the Latin kingdoms of the Occident.