who was Saladin's family?

Question

Saladin AKA Salah al Din Abu 'l-Muzaffer Yusuf ibn Ayyub ibn Shadi

Answer 1

Saladin was born in 1138 into a Kurdish [1] family in Tikrit and was sent to Damascus to finish his education. His father, Najm ad-Din Ayyub, was governor of Baalbek. For ten years Saladin lived in Damascus and studied Sunni Theology, at the court of Nur ad-Din (Nureddin). After an initial military education under the command of his uncle, Nur ad-Din's lieutenant Shirkuh, who was representing Nur ad-Din on campaigns against a faction of the Fatimid caliphate of Egypt in the 1160s, Saladin eventually succeeded the defeated faction and his uncle as vizier in 1169. Saladin's family would rule as the Ayyubid dynasty until it succumbed to the Mamluks in 1250.