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Ṣalāḥ al-Dīn Yūsuf b. Ayyūb

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Ruler of Egypt and Syria (also known as Saladin)

Names

  • Arabic: صلاح الدين يوسف بن أيوب = Ṣalāḥ al-Dīn Yūsuf b. Ayyūb 1
  • Arabic: صلاح الدين بن أيوب = Ṣalāḥ al-Dīn b. Ayyūb 2-3
  • Arabic: صلاح الدين = Ṣalāḥ al-Dīn 4
  • Syriac: ܨܠܚܕܝܢ = ṢLḤDYΝ 5

Attributes

  • Male

Temporal Data

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Event DescriptionDate
Event mentioned by Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī.1 before c. 1225c.1225877 A.H. / 14721995
Event mentioned by Ibn Baṭṭūṭa.2-4 before 1354 CE1354-1356early 1180 A.H. / 17661997
Events mentioned by Michael the Syrian5 before 11991195-1199?15982009

Sources

  • 1Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī, Muʿjam al-buldān (Beirut: Dār Ṣādr, 1995), (1) 383، 467، 519، 523، 525، 526 (2) 42، 43، 105، 107، 109، 154، 274، 424، 469 (3) 69، 130، 133، 304، 353، 437، 438 (4) 33، 86، 122، 144، 177، 266 (4) 389، (5) 171، 426 [Arabic].
  • 2Ibn Baṭṭūṭa, Riḥlat Ibn Baṭṭūṭa: al-musammāt Tuḥfat al-niẓār fī gharāʾib al-amṣār wa-ʿajāʾib al-asfār, edited by ʿAbd al-Hādī al-Tāzī (al-Ribāṭ: Akādīmiyyat al-Mamlaka al-Maghribiyya, 1417 H [1996-97]), 1:346 [Arabic].
    • Saladin b. Ayyūb: H. A. R. Gibb, C. F. Beckingham, and A. D. H. Bivar, trans., The Travels of Ibn Baṭṭūṭa, A.D. 1325-1354 (London: The Hakluyt Society, 1958-2000), I, 160 [English].
  • 3Ibn Baṭṭūṭa, Riḥlat Ibn Baṭṭūṭa: al-musammāt Tuḥfat al-niẓār fī gharāʾib al-amṣār wa-ʿajāʾib al-asfār, edited by ʿAbd al-Hādī al-Tāzī (al-Ribāṭ: Akādīmiyyat al-Mamlaka al-Maghribiyya, 1417 H [1996-97]), 1:244 [Arabic].
    • Ṣalāḥ al-Dīn b. Aiyūb: H. A. R. Gibb, C. F. Beckingham, and A. D. H. Bivar, trans., The Travels of Ibn Baṭṭūṭa, A.D. 1325-1354 (London: The Hakluyt Society, 1958-2000), I, 77 [English].
  • 4Ibn Baṭṭūṭa, Riḥlat Ibn Baṭṭūṭa: al-musammāt Tuḥfat al-niẓār fī gharāʾib al-amṣār wa-ʿajāʾib al-asfār, edited by ʿAbd al-Hādī al-Tāzī (al-Ribāṭ: Akādīmiyyat al-Mamlaka al-Maghribiyya, 1417 H [1996-97]), 1:262 [Arabic].
    • Ṣalāḥ al-Dīn: H. A. R. Gibb, C. F. Beckingham, and A. D. H. Bivar, trans., The Travels of Ibn Baṭṭūṭa, A.D. 1325-1354 (London: The Hakluyt Society, 1958-2000), I, 86 [English].
  • 5Gregorios Yuhanna Ibrahim, ed., The Edessa-Aleppo Syriac Codex of the Chronicle of Michael the Great (Piscataway, N.J.: Gorgias Press, 2009), 713 [Syriac].
    • Çalaḥ ed-Dîn: J.-B. Chabot, trans., Chronique de Michel le Syrien (Paris: Ernest Leroux, 1901), III, 328, 333, 334, 361, 364-366, 374, 375, 379, 382, 386, 388, 389, 393, 394, 396, 397, 403-405, 407-410 [French].
    • Salāḥ-al-dīn: Michael the Syrian, The Chronicle of Michael the Great (The Edessa-Aleppo Syriac Codex): Books XV–XXI From the Year 1050 to 1195 AD, ed. Amir Harrak (Piscataway, N.J.: Gorgias Press, 2019), xv, 156, 158, 368, 370, 376, 378, 380, 394, 396, 404, 410, 416, 426, 428, 432, 436 & n.1174, 438 & n.1176, 450, 452, 454, 458, 460, 462, 464 [Syriac with English translation].

How to Cite This Entry

Thomas A. Carlson, et al., “Ṣalāḥ al-Dīn Yūsuf b. Ayyūb” in Thomas A. Carlson, ed. Historical Index of the Medieval Middle East, last modified September 16, 2021, https://medievalmideast.org/person/5309.

Additional credit information:

  • Thomas A. Carlson: Data merging and XML; abstract; gender assignment, matching, and transliteration from Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī’s Muʿjam al-Buldān; matching, Arabic transliteration from Ibn Baṭṭūṭa's travel account; and matching, Syriac collection and transliteration, and reconciling Harrak's pages from Michael's chronicle
  • Jessica Mutter: Arabic collection from Ibn Baṭṭūṭa's travel account and matching, and reconciling Harrak's pages from Michael's chronicle
  • McKenzie Cady: categorization from Michael's chronicle
  • Laurel Kenner: incorporated Harrak's pages
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