萨拉赫·阿丁·优素福·伊本·阿尤布(阿拉伯语:صلاح الدين يوسف بن أيوب / ALA-LC(英语:ALA-LC romanization):Ṣalāḥ ad-Dīn Yūsuf ibn Ayyūb;庫爾德語:سەلاحەدینی ئەییووبی / ALC-LC:Selahedînê Eyûbî;1130年代[1]—1193年)是一位庫德人君主和軍事指揮官,通称萨拉丁(Saladin),埃及阿尤布王朝的第一位苏丹及敘利亞的第一位苏丹,1174年-1193年在位。阿尤布王朝是得名自他父親纳伊姆·阿丁·阿尤布。
^A number of contemporary sources make note of this. The biographer Ibn Khallikan writes, "Historians agree in stating that [Saladin's] father and family belonged to Duwin [Dvin]. ... They were Kurds and belonged to the Rawādiya (sic), which is a branch of the great tribe al-Hadāniya": Minorsky (1953), p. 124. The medieval historian Ibn Athir, who is a Kurd and therefore his credibility is questionable, relates a passage from another commander: "... both you and Saladin are Kurds and you will not let power pass into the hands of the Turks": Minorsky (1953), p. 138.
^Humphreys, R. Stephen. From Saladin to the Mongols: The Ayyubids of Damascus, 1193–1260. State University of New York Press. 1977: 29. ISBN 0-87395-263-4. Among the free-born amirs the Kurds would seem the most dependent on Saladin's success for the progress of their own fortunes. He too was a Kurd, after all ...
^H. A. R. Gibb, "The Rise of Saladin", in A History of the Crusades, vol. 1: The First Hundred Years, ed. Kenneth M. Setton (University of Wisconsin Press, 1969). p. 563.
^Riley Smith, Jonathan, "The Crusades, Christianity and Islam", (Columbia 2008), p. 67
^The Kaiser laid a wreath on the tomb baring the inscription, "A Knight without fear or blame who often had to teach his opponents the right way to practice chivalry." Grousset (1970).
^Riley Smith, Jonathan, "The Crusades, Christianity and Islam", (Columbia 2008), p. 63-66
^Madden, Thomas F.: The Concise History of the Crusades; 3rd edition, Rowman & Littlefield, 2013. pp. 201-204.