Saladin Quotes

1130–1190

Salah ad-Din Yusuf ibn Ayyub (c. 1137 – 4 March 1193), commonly known as Saladin (Arabic: صلاح الدین, lit. 'Honour of the Faith'), was a Kurdish commander and political leader. He was the founder of the Ayyubid dynasty and the first sultan of both Egypt and Syria.

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This is a victory opening the gates of men’s hearts.

Children are brought up in the way in which their elders were brought up.

Munich 113. Lyons and Jackson (1982)

This Yemen is a treasure house...We conquered it, but up to this day we have had no return and no advantage from it. There have only been innumerable expenses, the sending out of troops...and expectations which did not produce what was hoped for in the end.

Letter to al-‘Adil (1181)

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