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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 the city...
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.
May 17, 2019 · published on 17 May 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.
Oct 10, 2022 · Explore the life, military campaigns and major accomplishments of Saladin (c. 1137-1193), the Muslim Sultan of Egypt and Syria who went by the epithet ‘Righteous of the Faith’.
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. Though as a youth he preferred religious to military studies, he began his military career under his uncle, a military ...
Saladin, Salah ad-Din, or Salahuddin al Ayyubi ( so-lah-hood-din al-aye-yu-be) (c. 1138 – March 4, 1193), was a twelfth century Kurdish Muslim general and warrior from Tikrit, in present-day, northern Iraq. He founded the Ayyubid dynasty of Egypt, Syria, Yemen (except for the Northern Mountains), Iraq, Mecca Hejaz, and Diyar Bakr.
On the 4th March 1193, the legendary Saracen leader Saladin died after an unexpected illness shortly after one of his greatest battles against the Christian Crusaders. Described as ‘Son of Satan’ in the West, Saladin’s reputation as a brutal heathen is largely to do with Christian propaganda.
