Back الأفضل نجم الدين أيوب Arabic Nəcməddin Əyyubi Azerbaijani নাজমুদ্দিন আইয়ুব Bengali/Bangla Najm-ad-Din Ayyub Catalan نەجمەددین ئەییووب CKB Nadschmuddin Ayyub German Najm al-Din Ayyub English نجمالدین ایوب Persian Najm ad-Din Ayyub French Najmuddin Ayyub ID
al-Malik al-Afḍal Najm al-Dīn Ayyūb ibn Shādhī ibn Marwān (in arabo الملك ألأفضل نجم الدين أيوب بن شاذي بن مروان?, in lingua curda di Turchia Necmeddin Eyûbî; Dvin, ... – Il Cairo, 9 agosto 1173) è stato un militare e politico curdo originario della città oggi armena di Dvin,[1][2] nonché padre di Saladino[3] È dunque l'eponimo della dinastia Ayyubide.
- ^ (EN) Nicholas Morton, The Crusader States and their Neighbours: A Military History, 1099-1187, Oxford University Press, 24 aprile 2020, ISBN 978-0-19-255799-5.
- ^ Lyons, Malcolm Cameron and David Edward Pritchett Jackson, Saladin: The Politics of the Holy War, Cambridge University Press, 1982, p. 2;"According to this, two Kurdish brothers from Dvin near Tiflis, Ayyub and Shirkuh, moved to Iraq..."
- ^ George F. Nafziger; Mark W. Walton, Islam at War: A History, Praeger, 2003, p. 42.