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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.
- Saladin (Salah ad-Din Yusuf)
- Sunni Islam
- 4 March 1193 – 1196
- Al-Adil I
Muzaffar ad-Din Gökböri Al-Muzaffar Umar Al-Adil I Al-Afdal ibn Salah ad-Din: Strength; 18,000 - 20,000 men. 1,200 knights; 3,000 men-at-arms; 500 turcopoles; 15,000 infantry; 20,000-40,000 men. 12,000 regular cavalry; Casualties and losses; Most of the army
- 3–4 July 1187
- Ayyubid victory
following the death of the Prophet. He asserted that he, 'All al-Afdal, was being attacked by. his uncle, Abü Bakr al-'Ädil, and his own brother 'Uthmân al-'Azïz, just as the Prophets son-in-law, 'All, had been cheated by the first caliph, Abü Bakr, and the third, 'Uthmän.
The main loser in al-ʿĀdil's rise to the sultanate was Saladin's eldest son, al-Malik al-Afḍal ʿAlī, whom some have written off as an incompetent failure. In this paper for David Morgan, for many years my trusted colleague in the SOAS History Department, I suggest that that judgment on al-Afḍal is open to appeal.
- Gerald Hawting
- 2016
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
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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. Read more on Wikipedia.
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.