Saladin - Wikipedia Saladin died in Damascus in 1193, having given away much of his personal wealth to his subjects; he is buried in a mausoleum adjacent to the Umayyad Mosque Alongside his significance to Muslim culture, Saladin is revered prominently in Kurdish, Turkic, Arab and even Western culture
Saladin | Biography, Achievements, Crusades, Facts | Britannica Saladin, Muslim sultan of Egypt, Syria, Yemen, and Palestine, founder of the Ayyubid dynasty, and the most famous of Muslim heroes In wars against the Christian Crusaders, he achieved great success with the capture of Jerusalem in 1187, ending its nearly nine decades of occupation by the Franks
Saladin - World History Encyclopedia Saladin (1137-93) was the Muslim Sultan of Egypt and Syria (r 1174-1193) who shocked the western world by defeating an army of the Christian Crusader states
Saladin | Life, Achievements, Crusades and Facts About The Ruler . . . Who was Saladin? A Sunni Muslim of Kurdish descent, Saladin was the founder of the Ayyubid dynasty (which ruled over modern-day Egypt and parts of Iraq, Syria, Palestine and Yemen) and was the first man at the time of the crusades to be sultan of both Egypt and Syria
Saladin - New World Encyclopedia Known as the great opponent of the Crusaders, Saladin was a Muslim warrior and Ayyubid sultan of Egypt Of Kurdish ancestry from Mesopotamia, Saladin lived for ten years in Damascus in the court of Nur ad-Din, where he studied Sunni theology
Saladin - History Learning Saladin - whose real name was Salah al-Din Yusuf - was a celebrated Muslim leader Saladin was born into a prominent Kurdish family with a father who worked for the Turkish governor ‘Imad ad-Din Zangi ibn Aq Sonqur in northern Syria
How Saladin united the Muslim forces to defeat the Third Crusade Saladin rose to power as the Muslim leader who recaptured Jerusalem in 1187 and prevented its recovery by the Third Crusade He had spent years planning military campaigns, building religious authority among Sunni scholars and expanding his control across Egypt and Syria
PBS - Islam: Empire of Faith - Profiles - Saladin Saladin, the Western name for the ruler Salah al-Din ibn Ayyub, was the great Muslim general who confronted the Crusaders in the Near East Born to a Kurdish family active in Syria, Saladin