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Salah ad-Din (name)

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Salah ad-Din (Arabic: صلاح الدين), Salahu’d-Din, Ṣalāḥ ud-Dīn, Salah ed-Din and other variant spellings, is an Arabic name that means The Righteousness of the Faith.

It commonly refers to An-Nasir Salah ad-Din Yusuf ibn Ayyub (Arabic: صلاح الدين يوسف بن أيوب), known as Saladin, the first sultan of Egypt and Syria and the founder of the Ayyubid dynasty.

Other notable people with the name, or known by the name, include (listed by nationality):

Middle East and Africa

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Algeria

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Central African Republic

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Egypt

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Ethiopia

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Iraq

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Jordan

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  • Salah Suheimat (Salah al-Din Attallah Suheimat, 1914–1966), politician

Morocco

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Sudan

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Syria

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  • An-Nasir Yusuf (Salah al-Din Yusuf ibn al-Aziz ibn al-Zahir ibn Salah al-Din Yusuf ibn Ayyub ibn Shazy 1228–1260), Ayyubid Emir and Sultan
  • Salah al-Din al-Bitar (1912–1980), politician

Yemen

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Asia

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Afghanistan

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Bangladesh

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Brunei

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India

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Indonesia

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Malaysia

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Maldives

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Pakistan

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Thailand

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Europe

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Americas

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See also

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