- 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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
