NOUN | person | Salah-ad-Din Yusuf ibn-Ayyub, Saladin | sultan of Syria and Egypt |
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Meaning | sultan of Syria and Egypt; reconquered Jerusalem from the Christians in 1187 but was defeated by Richard Coeur de Lion in 1191 (1137-1193). | |
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Synonym | Saladin | |
Instance of | sultan, grand Turk | The ruler of a Muslim country (especially of the former Ottoman Empire) |
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