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Sunni Islam. Al-Afdal ibn Salah ad-Din ( Arabic: الأفضل بن صلاح الدين, "most superior"; c. 1169 – 1225, generally known as Al-Afdal ( الأفضل ), was one of seventeen sons of Saladin, Sultan of Egypt and Syria, and thus of Kurdish descent. He succeeded his father as the second Ayyubid emir of Damascus. His career as a ...
- Saladin (Salah ad-Din Yusuf)
- Sunni Islam
- 4 March 1193 – 1196
- Al-Adil I
May 10, 2016 · The period following the death of Saladin (589/1193) was a formative one in the history of the Ayyūbid empire. It saw the eventual establishment of Saladin's younger brother Sayf al-Dīn al-Malik al-ʿĀdil as the acknowledged sovereign of the various territories ruled by members of the Ayyūbid family, overturning the succession arrangements that Saladin had put into place; and it ...
- Gerald Hawting
- 2016
4According to al-Maqrlzî, already in 580/1184 Saladin had provided for al-Afdal to become the ruler of Damascus with his uncle Sayfal-DIn al-'Ädil as his guardian (bi-kafilat 'ammihi), but those provision were not put into effect: Al-Maqrîzï, Kitâb al-Sulük li-ma'rifat duwal al-mulük, (ed.) Muhammad Mustafa Ziyäda, vol. 1, part 1,
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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.
- 1174 – 4 March 1193
- Ayyub ibn Shadi
- Umayyad Mosque, Damascus
- Sunni Islam
The Battle of Hattin took place on 4 July 1187, between the Crusader states of the Levant and the forces of the Ayyubid sultan Saladin. It is also known as the Battle of the Horns of Hattin, due to the shape of the nearby extinct volcano of that name . The Muslim armies under Saladin captured or killed the vast majority of the Crusader forces ...
- 3–4 July 1187
- Ayyubid victory
Saladin children names were: Al-Afdal Ibn Salah Ad-Din, Al-Aziz Uthman, Al-Zahir Ghazi, and Ishaq Ibn Salah Al-Din In the next years, he would commission successful conquests of Yemen, led forays against Crusaders in Palestine, and staved off rebellions in Upper Egypt, thus beginning the Ayyubid dynasty.
Al-Afdal ibn Salah ad-Din (Arabic language: الأفضل بن صلاح الدين, "most superior"; c. 1169 – 1225) popularly known as Al-Afdal (الأفضل), was one of seventeen sons of Saladin. He succeeded his father as the second Ayyubid emir of Damascus. Al-Afdal was one of the Ayyubid commanders at the Battle of Arsuf, when Saladin was defeated by Richard I of England and the ...
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