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Alija Izetbegovic: (1925-2003) was a Bosnian politician;lawyer and Islamic philosopher.who became the 1st president of Bosnia and Herzegovina in 1992.he was a member of tripartiate presidency of Bosnia until his death.he bravely defended the Bosnian nation and Bosnian Muslims from Serb aggression during the civil war in Bosnia and brought peace ...
Salah ad-Din Yusuf ibn Ayyub [a] (c. 1137 – 4 March 1193), commonly known as Saladin, [b] was the founder of the Ayyubid dynasty.Hailing from a Kurdish family, he was the first sultan of both Egypt and Syria.
The Mausoleum of Saladin holds the resting place and grave of the medieval Muslim Ayyubid Sultan Saladin. It is adjacent to the Umayyad Mosque in Damascus , Syria . [ 1 ] It was built in 1196, three years after the death of Saladin. [ 2 ]
Jerusalem under the Ayyubid dynasty after the death of Saladin, 1193 The Bahri Mamluk Dynasty 1250–1382. 1187: Siege of Jerusalem (1187) – Saladin captures Jerusalem from the Crusaders, after Battle of the Horns of Hattin. Allows Jewish and Orthodox Christian settlement. The Dome of the Rock is converted to an Islamic centre of worship again.
Spring. Saladin releases Guy of Lusignan from captivity. [17] 26 May. Barbarossa sends Saladin an ultimatum to withdraw from the lands he had taken. [18] 20–22 July. Bohemond III of Antioch is defeated by Saladin at the Siege of Laodicea. [19] 26–29 July. Saladin defeats the Knights Hospitaller at the Siege of Sahyun Castle. [20] 5–9 August.
The most important sources written during or shortly after the events are: The al-Nawādir al-Sultaniyya wa'l-Maḥāsin al-Yūsufiyya ("Anecdotes of the Sultan and Virtues of Yusuf", in 2001 translated by D. S. Richards as The Rare and Excellent History of Saladin), an Arabic biography of Saladin written by the Kurdish chronicler Baha ad-Din ibn Shaddad who served in Saladin's camp and was an ...
Al-Adid's death puts an end to the Fatimid Caliphate and makes Saladin the undisputed ruler of Egypt. [281] [285] [286] October. Saladin invades the kingdom and destroys the Frank colonists' quarter at Montreal. He returns to Egypt when he learns of Nur ad-Din's decision to participate in the campaign. Nur ad-Din accuses Saladin of disloyalty ...
Opening page of the Libellus in the British Library's Cotton MS Cleopatra B. I. The Libellus de expugnatione Terrae Sanctae per Saladinum (Latin for "Little Book about the Conquest of the Holy Land by Saladin"), also called the Chronicon Terrae Sanctae ("Chronicle of the Holy Land"), is a short anonymous Latin account of the conquests of Saladin (Ṣalāḥ al-Dīn) in the Holy Land between ...