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al-Malik al-Afdal Najm al-Dīn Ayyūb ibn Shādhi ibn Marwān (Arabic: الملك ألأفضل نجم الدين أيوب بن شاذي بن مروان, Kurdish: نەجمەدین ئەییووبی شادی مەڕوان, romanized: Necmeddin Eyûbî Şadî Meřiwan; died August 9, 1173), or simply Najmadin, was a Kurdish soldier and politician ...
Al-Malik as-Salih Najm al-Din Ayyub (5 November 1205 – 22 November 1249), nickname: Abu al-Futuh ( Arabic: أبو الفتوح ), also known as al-Malik al-Salih, was the Ayyubid ruler of Egypt from 1240 to 1249. Early life. As-Salih was born in 1205, the son of Al-Kamil and a Nubian concubine.
This is one of the most important architectural installations dating to the Ayyubid period. It is located between al-Qasrayn (the two palaces) on al-Muizz Street. Built in the year 641 AH / 1243 AD, it became known as the Salhiyya Madrasa, referring to its eponym Sultan al-Salih Nagm al-Din Ayyub.
The Ayyubid dynasty came to power under the leadership of the Kurdish Zangid general Salah al-Din (r. 1169–93), known in Europe as Saladin. After repulsing a Crusader army that had reached the gates of Fatimid Cairo and occupying Egypt on behalf of the Zangids (1160s), Salah al-Din declared the Fatimid caliphate to be at its end, and ...
The Salihiyya Madrasa (or Madrasa as-Salihiyya), also called the Madrasa and Mausoleum of as-Salih Najm ad-Din Ayyub (Arabic: مدرسة وقبة الصالح نجم الدين أيوب, romanized: Madrasa wa Qubbat as-Salih Nagm ad-Din Ayyub) is a historic madrasa and mausoleum complex in Cairo, Egypt.
Short Description. In the following pages, let me jump with you over as much as fifty years of conflict, to have a pause with the last ten years of the Ayyubid Dynasty, namely from 637 A.H., when Sultan As-Saalih Najm Ad-Deen Ayyoob sat on the Throne of Egypt, and he is thought to be the best of the Ayyubids after Saladin.
Sultan al-Salih Najm al-Din Ayyub (r. AH 637–47 / AD 1240–9) the last of the Ayyubid sultans. Description: The Madrasa of al-Salih Najm al-Din Ayyub was erected on the site where the Fatimid Eastern Palace once stood.
