Saladin ritually cleansed Jerusalem’s Muslim sites of Frankish pollution

Evidence

When Saladin “reconquered” Jerusalem in 1187, he had the Muslim holy sites ritually washed in rose water to cleanse them of Frankish “pollution,” Continuation des histoires des Croisades de Guillaume de Tyr, ed. — John V. Tolan, Saracens, 1703

Categorization

• CANDY: A crisp, self-contained anecdote: Saladin washing the Dome of the Rock in rose water to purge Frankish defilement.
• XREF: Contrast case for the vault distinction between medieval Muslim and Christian purity logic — Muslims also treated rival worshippers as polluting, mirroring rather than only suffering the Christian framing.