Saladin
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| Saladin | |||||
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| Sultan o Egyp an Sham | |||||
| Reign | 1174–1193 | ||||
| Coronation | 1174, Cairo | ||||
| Predecessor | Nur ad-Din Zangi | ||||
| Successor | Al-Afdal (Sirie) Al-Aziz Uthman (Egyp) |
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| Born | Muslim year 532 1138 Tikrit, Mesopotamia |
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| Died | 4 Mairch 1193 (aged 55) Damascus, Sirie |
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| Burial | Umayyad Mosque, Damascus, Sirie | ||||
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| Dynasty | Ayyubid | ||||
| Faither | Najm ad-Dīn Ayyūb | ||||
| Releegion | Islam | ||||
Ṣalāḥ ad-Dīn Yūsuf ibn Ayyūb (Arabic: صلاح الدين يوسف بن أيوب; Kurdish: سهلاحهدین ئهیوبی , Selahedînê Eyûbî; Turkis: Selahattin Eyyubi) (1137/1138 – Mairch 4, 1193), better kent in the Wastren warld as Saladin, wis the first Sultan o Egyp an Sirie an the foonder o the Ayyubid dynasty. A Muslim o Kurdish[1][2][3] origin, Saladin led the Muslim opposeetion against the European Crusaders in the Levant. At the hicht o his pouer, his sultanate includit Egyp, Sirie, Mesopotamie, Hejaz, Yemen, an ither pairts o North Africae.
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- ↑ A number of contemporary sources make note o this. The biographer Ibn Khallikan writes, "Historians agree in stating that [Saladin's] father and family belonged to Duwin [Dvin]....They were Kurds and belonged to the Rawādiya (sic), which is a branch of the great tribe al-Hadāniya": Minorsky (1953), p. 124. The medieval historian Ibn Athir ,who is a Kurd and therefore his credibility is questionable, relates a passage from another commander: "...both you and Saladin are Kurds and you will not let power pass into the hands of the Turks": Minorsky (1953), p. 138.
- ↑ R. Stephen Humphreys, From Saladin to the Mongols: The Ayyubids of Damascus, 1193–1260, (State University of New York Press, 1977), 29;"Among the free-born amirs the Kurds would seem the most dependent on Saladin's success for the progress of their own fortunes. He too was a Kurd, after all...".
- ↑ "Encyclopedia of World Biography on Saladin". Retrieved August 20, 2008.
