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Founder of the Ayyubid dynasty
- Salah ad-Din Yusuf ibn Ayyub [a] (c. 1137 – 4 March 1193), commonly known as Saladin, [b] 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.
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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.
- Early Life and Rise to Power in Egypt
- Campaigns Against Fellow Muslims
- Defeat of Crusaders and Capture of Jerusalem
- The Third Crusade and Saladin's Death
- Sources
Saladin was born Yusuf Ibn Ayyub in the central Iraqi city of Tikrit in 1137 or 1138. His family was of Kurdish descent, and his father Ayyub and uncle Shirkuh were elite military leaders under Imad al-Din Zangi, a powerful ruler who governed northern Syria at the time. After growing up in Damascus and rising through the military ranks, the young S...
Nur al-Din died in 1174, and Saladin launched a campaign to take control of the lands he had ruled. He also sought to establish his regime as a major military player capable of challenging the four Western-controlled Crusader states, which had been established after the First Crusade in 1098-99. As sultan of Egypt, Saladin returned to Syria and man...
After nearly a decade of fighting smaller battles against the Franks (as the Crusaders from Western Europe were called), Saladin prepared to launch a full-scale attack in 1187 by assembling troops from across his realm south of Damascus and an impressive Egyptian fleet at Alexandria. His army met the Franks in a massive clash at Hattin, near Tiberi...
In the wake of Saladin’s capture of Jerusalem, Pope Gregory III called for a new Crusade to recapture the city. In 1189, Christian forces mobilized at Tyre to launch the Third Crusade, led by three powerful kings: Frederick I “Barbarossa,” the German king and Holy Roman Emperor, King Philip II of France and Richard I “the Lionheart” of England. The...
Mark Cartwright. Saladin. World History Encyclopedia. Paul E. Walker. Saladin. Encyclopedia Britannica. David Nicolle. Saladin(Bloomsbury, 2011)
Saladin was the most famous Muslim hero of the Middle Ages and a consummate military tactician, whose capture of Jerusalem set off the Third Crusade.
5 days ago · 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.
- Paul E. Walker
- Saladin began his military career as a soldier in his uncle’s Egyptian campaign. In 1169 he became vizier of Egypt’s Fāṭimid caliphate, which was a...
- Saladin was a devout Sunni Muslim. He was committed to jihad, a term that in this context refers to a struggle to promote what is right and prevent...
- In 1186/87 the Crusader prince Reginald of Châtillon broke a truce with Saladin, who responded by declaring war. Saladin slaughtered the Crusader a...
- Saladin’s reconquest of Jerusalem in 1187 prompted Pope Gregory VIII to organize the Third Crusade. From 1189 to 1192, Saladin lost Acre and Jaffa...
Aug 30, 2018 · Saladin, whose full name was al-Malik al-Nasir Salah al-Dunya wa'l-Din Abu'l Muzaffar Yusuf Ibn Ayyub Ibn Shadi al-Kurdi, the son of Ayub, a displaced Kurdish mercenary, was born in 1137 in the castle of Takrit north of Baghdad. Saladin would rise through the ranks of the military where he gained a reputation as a skilled horseman and a gifted ...
- Mark Cartwright
Saladin (An-Nasir Salah ad-Din Yusuf ibn Ayyub) was born (1138) to a Kurdish family in Tikrit (now part of northern Iraq and the birthplace of Saddam Hussein). Saladin grew up in Mosul and later Damascus.
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.
