Salah al- Din Yusuf ibn Ayyub was born in 1138 in the town of Takrit. His family was Kurdish. He was very modest and cultured. He held Islam together during its hardest times of attack. No other Muslim has done as much as he has done. He was small with a charming smile, quite and cultured in his speech. He also had a tough hand to play. Saladin was the most respected man of his times …showed first 75 words of 276 total…

…showed last 75 words of 276 total…went to greet pilgrims returning from Mecca. That night he retuned, he got sick and sat in his death bed. On Wednesday, March 3, 1193, he died from a comma. "So passed a gentle warrior, a man of simple taste and great chivalry." Saladin looked farther than a man's belief and into his heart. He respected the Christian faith and never broke his word once it was given. After his death he had influence many Arab rulers.