Salah ad-Din (Arabic: صلاح الدين), or Salahu’d-Din, Ṣalāḥ ud-Dīn or 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

Algeria

Central African Republic

Egypt

Ethiopia

Iraq

Jordan

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

Morocco

Sudan

Syria

  • 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

Asia

Afghanistan

Bangladesh

Brunei

India

Indonesia

Malaysia

Maldives

Pakistan

Thailand

Europe

Americas

See also

  • Saladin (disambiguation), for other uses including fictional characters
  • Selahattin, the Turkish version of the name
  • All pages with titles containing Salah El-Din
  • All pages with titles containing Salah Al-Deen
  • All pages with titles containing Salah Al-Din
  • All pages with titles containing Saladin
  • All pages with titles containing Salaheddine
  • All pages with titles containing Salahuddin
  • All pages with titles containing Salahudin
  • All pages with titles containing Sallehuddin
  • Salahuddin Ahmed (disambiguation)
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