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Salah Ad-Din (name)
Salah ad-Din ( ar, صلاح الدين), or Salahu’d-Din, Ṣalāḥ ud-Dīn or other variant spellings, is an Arabic name that means ''The Righteousness of the Faith''. It commonly refers to An-Nasir Salah ad-Din Yusuf ibn Ayyub (Arabic: صلاح الدين يوسف بن أيوب), known as Saladin, the first sultan of Egypt and Syria and the founder of the Ayyubid dynasty. Other notable people with the name, or known by the name, include (listed by nationality): Middle East and Africa Algeria *Salaheddine Mokdad Saidi (born 1978), volleyball player Central African Republic * Jean-Bédel Bokassa (1921–1996), military ruler, briefly known as Salah Eddine Ahmed Bokassa Egypt * Al-Ashraf Khalil (Al-Ashraf Salāh ad-Dīn Khalil issalahuddinbn Qalawūn, c. 1260s – 1293), Mamluk sultan *Salah Nasr (Salah ad-Din Nasr, 1920–1982), head of the Egyptian General Intelligence Directorate *Salah Jahin (Muhammad Salah Eldin Bahgat Ahmad Helmy, 1930–1986), writer and cartoo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Saladin
Yusuf ibn Ayyub ibn Shadi () ( – 4 March 1193), commonly known by the epithet Saladin,, ; ku, سهلاحهدین, ; was the founder of the Ayyubid dynasty. Hailing from an ethnic Kurdish family, he was the first 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. At the height of his power, Ayyubid territorial control spanned Egypt, Syria, Upper Mesopotamia, the Hejaz, Yemen, the Maghreb, and Nubia. Alongside his uncle Shirkuh, a military general of the Zengid dynasty, Saladin was sent to Egypt under the Fatimid Caliphate in 1164, on the orders of Nur ad-Din. With their original purpose being to help restore Shawar as the to the teenage Fatimid caliph al-Adid, a power struggle ensued between Shirkuh and Shawar after the latter was reinstated. Saladin, meanwhile, climbed the ranks of the Fatimid government by virtue of his military successes against Crusa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
