Najm al-Din Ayyub
Kurdish soldier and politician, father of Saladin / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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al-Malik al-Afdal Najm al-Dīn Ayyūb ibn Shādhi ibn Marwān (Arabic: الملك ألأفضل نجم الدين أيوب بن شاذي بن مروان, Kurdish: نەجمەدین ئەییووبی شادی مەڕوان, romanized: Necmeddin Eyûbî Şadî Meřiwan; died August 9, 1173), or simply Najmadin, was a Kurdish[1] soldier and politician from Dvin,[2] and the father of Saladin.[3] He is the eponymous ancestor of the Ayyubid dynasty.