the ledger of connections
The Connections of Saladin
Sultan who united the Muslim world and retook Jerusalem with famed chivalry Every person recorded alongside Saladin in the archive: family, teachers, students, influences, and the contemporaries who shared the same years.
Family & Connections
People recorded alongside Saladin in the ledgers of the archive.
- Parents
- Najm ad-Din Ayyub, Sitt al-Mulk Fatma Khatun
- Spouses
- Ismat ad-Din Khatun
- Children
- Al-Afdal ibn Salah ad-Din, Al-Aziz Uthman, Az-Zahir Ghazi
- Siblings
- Turan-Shah, Al-Adil I, Rabia Khatoon, Tughtakin ibn Ayyub, Sitt al-Sham, Nur Ad-Din Shahanshah
Alive in the same years
Records in the archive whose lifetimes overlapped the years 1138 to 1193.
Medieval era
Francis of Assisi
June 24, 1182 – October 3, 1226
Italian Catholic saint, friar, deacon and preacher and founder of the Franciscan Order (1181/2–1226)
Medieval era
Hildegard of Bingen
1098 – September 17, 1179
German Benedictine abbess, polymath, mystic and Doctor of Church (1098–1179)
Medieval era
Eleanor of Aquitaine
1124 – April 1, 1204
Queen consort of France; Queen consort of England; suo jure Duchess of Aquitaine; patroness
Medieval era
Richard the Lionheart
September 8, 1157 – April 6, 1199
King of England from 1189 to 1199 (1157–1199)
Medieval era
King John of England
December 24, 1166 – October 19, 1216
King of England from 1199 to 1216
Medieval era
Frederick Barbarossa
1122 – June 10, 1190
Holy Roman Emperor from 1155 to 1190
Medieval era
Genghis Khan
May 31, 1162 – August 25, 1227
Founder of the Mongol Empire, the largest contiguous empire in history
Medieval era
Fibonacci
1170 – c. 1240
Italian mathematician (c.1170–c.1240/50)
Medieval era
Maimonides
March 30, 1138 – December 13, 1204
Medieval Jewish philosopher from Spain (1135–1204)
Medieval era
Averroes
April 14, 1126 – December 10, 1198
Arab Andalusian Muslim writer and philosopher (1126–1198)
Medieval era
Moinuddin Chishti
February 1, 1143 – March 15, 1236
Persian Sufi Chishtiyya order mystic (1143–1236)
Medieval era
Qutbuddin Bakhtiar Kaki
1173 – November 27, 1235
Indian Sufi