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Salahuddin Ayyubi

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Sultan  Salahuddin Ayyubi  was born in the year  1137  and died in  4 March 1193  . His family was of Kurdish background and ancestry. His father named Najm ad-Din Ayyub, was banished from Tikrit and in 1139, he and his brother Asad al-Din Shirkuh, moved to Mosul. He later joined the service of Imad ad-Din Zangi who made him commander of his fortress in Baalbek. After the death of Zangi in 1146, his son, Nur ad-Din, became the regent of Aleppo and the leader of the Zengids. Sultan Salahuddin Ayyubi, the hero of hundreds of battles, and was the person ,who for twenty years braved the storm of the Crusaders and ultimately pushed back the combined forces of Europe which had come to swarm the Holy Land. The world has hardly witnessed a more chivalrous and humane conqueror. The Crusades represent the maddest and the longest war in the history of mankind, in which the storm of savage fanaticism of the Christian West burst in all its fury over western Asia .  He was great leader  and per