HyperDic: salah-ad-din_yusuf_ibn-ayyub

English > 1 sense of the expression Salah-ad-Din Yusuf ibn-Ayyub:
NOUNperson Salah-ad-Din Yusuf ibn-Ayyub, Saladinsultan of Syria and Egypt
English > Salah-ad-Din Yusuf ibn-Ayyub: 1 sense > noun 1, person
Meaningsultan of Syria and Egypt; reconquered Jerusalem from the Christians in 1187 but was defeated by Richard Coeur de Lion in 1191 (1137-1193).
SynonymSaladin
Instance ofsultan, grand TurkThe ruler of a Muslim country (especially of the former Ottoman Empire)

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