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Salah ad-Din Yusuf ibn Ayyub (c. 1137 – 4 March 1193), commonly known as Saladin, was the founder of the Ayyubid dynasty. Hailing from a Kurdish family, he was the first sultan of both Egypt and Syria. An important figure of the Third Crusade, he spearheaded the Muslim military effort against the Crusader states in the Levant.
May 27, 2024 · Saladin (born 1137/38, Tikrīt, Mesopotamia [now in Iraq]—died March 4, 1193, Damascus [now in Syria]) was a Muslim sultan of Egypt, Syria, Yemen, and Palestine, founder of the Ayyūbid dynasty, and the most famous of Muslim heroes.
Apr 2, 2012 · Saladin is the Western name of Salah al-Din Yusuf ibn Ayyub, the Muslim sultan of Egypt and Syria who famously defeated a massive army of Crusaders in the Battle of Hattin and captured...
Aug 30, 2018 · Saladin (1137-93) was the Muslim Sultan of Egypt and Syria (r. 1174-1193) who shocked the western world by defeating an army of the Christian Crusader states at the Battle of Hattin and then capturing Jerusalem in 1187. Saladin all but destroyed the states of the Latin East in the Levant and successfully repelled the Third Crusade (1187-1192).
May 18, 2020 · Saladin (l. 1137-1193 CE), the Sultan of Egypt and Syria, who united the core of the Islamic Empire under his domain prepared to strike back. He utterly vanquished the Crusader field army at the Battle of Hattin, in 1187 CE, and took Jerusalem later that year.
Dec 12, 2021 · Discover the many epic clashes between King Richard the Lionheart of England and the great Kurdish leader Saladin. Dec 12, 2021 • By Igor Radulovic, MA History Education, BA Art History. In the late 12th century a vast area covering Egypt and Syria was in the hands of a new ruler, Saladin.
May 17, 2019 · Saladin (c. 1137 – 1193 CE), the Muslim ruler who crushed the mighty Crusader army at the Horns of Hattin (1187 CE) and re-took Jerusalem after 88 years of Crusader control, was born in a world where the disunity of the Muslims had allowed foreign invaders to take over their territory.
Feb 20, 2024 · Salah al-Din Yusuf ibn Ayyub, Muslim Sultan of Egypt and Syria, known to the west as Saladin, is certainly one of the most durably famous historical figures from the period of the Crusades. His political and military skills won him the admiration of the Muslim world.
Saladin , byname of Ṣalāḥ al-Dīn Yūsuf ibn Ayyūb , (born 1137/38, Tikrīt, Mesopotamia—died March 4, 1193, Damascus, Syria), Kurdish sultan of Egypt, Syria, Yemen, and Palestine and founder of the Ayyūbid dynasty.
Yusuf ibn Ayyub ibn Shadhi (25 December 1138–1193), better known as Saladin, was a famous Kurdish Muslim Sultan of Egypt and Syria during the Crusades. [1] A Muslim of Kurdish origin, [2] [3] [4] Saladin led the Muslim opposition to the European Crusaders in the Levant.
