- Shirkuh. The
family belonged to the
tribe of
Revend or Revendi, also
Kurdish Rawadiya,
itself a
branch of the
Hadhabani tribe. The
earliest form of the name...
-
Kurdish Rawadiya tribe,
itself a
branch of the
large Hadhabani tribe. Ayyub's
ancestors settled in the town of Dvin, in
northern Armenia. The
Rawadiya were...
- Armenia. He was the son of a
Kurdish mercenary, Najm ad-Din Ayyub. The
Rawadiya tribe he
hailed from had been
partially ****imilated into the Arabic-speaking...
- po****ted by Kurds. The name 'Rawandiz'
derives from the name of the
Rawandiz (
Rawadiya)
Kurdish tribe, of
which Saladin and the
Ayyubids originated. The tribe's...
-
Kurdistan in the mid 8th century, and it took over a
leadership of the
Rawadiya a
branch of
Hadhabani Kurdish tribe by the
tenth century. In the second...
-
Salah ed-Din (Saladin) was the son of Ayûb, and
grandson of Shadi, a
Rawadiya Kurd of the
great Hadâniya Tribe. He was thus of Kurd descent. Several...
-
their power was
during the 12th century, when Saladin, who
belonged to the
Rawadiya branch of the
Hadabani tribe,
founded the
Ayyubid dynasty,
under which...
-
Salah ed-Din (Saladin) was the son of Ayûb, and
grandson of Shadi, a
Rawadiya Kurd of the
great Hadâniya Tribe. He was thus of Kurd descent. Several...
