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3 unusual facts about Najm ad-Din Ayyub


Najm ad-Din Ayyub

The family were closely connected to the Shaddadid dynasty, and when the last Shaddadid was deposed in Dvin in 1130, Shadhi moved the family first to Baghdad and then to Tikrit, where he was appointed governor by the regional administrator Bihruz.

M. Holt, The Age of the Crusades: The Near East from the Eleventh Century to 1517, Longman, 1986.

According to Vladimir Minorsky, this could have been a corruption of the Arabic name "Rawadiya".



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