EditorialMausoleum of Saladin or An-Nasir Salah ad-Din Yusuf ibn Ayyub (1137-1193). First sultan of Egypt and Syria. Founder of the Ayyubid dynasty. He was buried in a mausoleum in the garden outside the Umayyad Mosque in Damascus, Syria. Seven centuries later,...
EditorialTurbe or tomb of Abu Ayyub al-Ansari in the Eyup Sultan Mosque, Istanbul. The tomb is open day and night and lit with two large torches and a flagpole wrapped in green cloth. Walls covered in Isnik tiles. Turbe dEyub. Chapelle sepulchrale dEyub. Handco...
EditorialMausoleum of Saladin or An-Nasir Salah ad-Din Yusuf ibn Ayyub (1137-1193). First sultan of Egypt and Syria. Founder of the Ayyubid dynasty. He was buried in a mausoleum in the garden outside the Umayyad Mosque in Damascus, Syria. Seven centuries later,...
EditorialMausoleum of Saladin or An-Nasir Salah ad-Din Yusuf ibn Ayyub (1137-1193). First sultan of Egypt and Syria. Founder of the Ayyubid dynasty. He was buried in a mausoleum in the garden outside the Umayyad Mosque in Damascus, Syria. Seven centuries later,...
EditorialSALADINO I (Tikrit, 1138-Damasco, 1193). Su verdadero nombre era al-Malik al-Nasir Yusuf. Sult?n ayyub? de Egipto (1171-1193) y Siria (1174-1193). Unific? el Islam y venci? en las Cruzadas. Vista del SARCOFAGO de m?rmol con los restos del sult?n, situa...
EditorialSaladin (real name Salah_ al-Din Yusuf ibn Ayyub) (1138-1193). The first Sultan of Egypt and Syria and the founder of the Ayyubid dynasty. Mausoleum of Saladin. Two Cenotaphs. First, marble coffin (empty) gift from Emperor Wilhem II next to a wooden to...