Saladin

Salah al-Din redirects here. For the governorate in Iraq, see Salah ad Din. For the Saladin (FV601) six-wheeled armoured car, see Alvis Saladin. For the animated series of Saladin, see Saladin, properly known as Salah al-Dīn Yusuf ibn Ayyub (, ) (c. 1138 – March 4, 1193), Sultan of Egypt and Syria, was a 12th-century Kurdish Muslim political and military leader from Tikrit, Iraq. At the height of his power, the Ayyubid dynasty he founded ruled over Egypt, Syria, Iraq, Hejaz, and Yemen. He is renowned for leading Muslim resistance to the European Crusaders and eventually recapturing Palestine from the Crusader Kingdom of Jerusalem. As such, he remains a widely admired figure in Arab, Kurdish, and Muslim culture.
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Noun
1. sultan of Syria and Egypt; reconquered Jerusalem from the Christians in 1187 but was defeated by Richard Coeur de Lion in 1191 (1137-1193)
(synonym) Salah-ad-Din Yusuf ibn-Ayyub
(hypernym) sultan, grand Turk