Salah ad-Din (name)

Salah ad-Din (also spelled Salahu’d-Din) (Arabic: صلاح الدين, Ṣalāḥ ud-Dīn) is an Arabic name that means The Righteousness of the Faith.

It may usually refer to:

• Ṣalāḥ ud-Dīn Yūsuf ibn Ayyūb, known in Europe as Saladin (ca. 1138 — 1193), Kurdish Muslim who became Sultan of Egypt and Syria

Others by nationality

Middle East

Algeria

• Salaheddine Mokdad Saidi (born 1978), volleyball player

Egypt

• Al-Malik al-Ashraf Salāh ud-Dīn Khalil ibn Qalawūn, or just Al-Ashraf Khalil (ca. 1262 - 1293), Mamluk sultan of Egypt
• Salah ad-Din Nasr or Salah Nasr (1920–1982), head of the Egyptian General Intelligence Directorate
• Mohammad Salah eddin Bahgat Helmy, or Salah Jahin (1930–1986), poet, playwright and cartoonist
• Salah al-Deen Hafez (1938–2008), writer and journalist
• Walid Salah El-Din (born 1971), footballer
• Mohamed Salah El-Din, footballer

Ethiopia

• Saladin Said (born 1988), also known as Salhadin Said, Ethiopian footballer

Iraq

• Salaheddine Bahaaeddin (born 1950), Kurdish Iraqi politician
• Salah Al-Deen Siamand (born 1981), Kurdish-Iraqi footballer
• Qusay Salahaddin, murdered student

Jordan

• Salah al-Din Attallah Suheimat, or Salah Suheimat (1914-1966), politician

Morocco

• Salaheddine Mezouar (born 1953), politician
• Salaheddine Bassir (born 1972), footballer
• Salahiddine Khlifi (born 1979), footballer
• Salaheddine Aqqal (born 1984), footballer
• Salaheddine Sbaï (born 1985), footballer
• Salaheddine Saidi (born 1987), footballer

Sudan

• Ghazi Salah al-Din al-Atabani (born 1951), politician

Syria

• al-Nasir Salah al-Din Yusuf, or An-Nasir Yusuf (1228-1260), Ayyubid ruler of most of Syria
• Salah al-Din al-Bitar (1912–1980), politician

Yemen

• Al-Nasir Muhammad Salah al-Din (1338-1391), imam of Yemen

Africa

Central African Republic

• Salah Eddine Ahmed Bokassa, or Jean-Bédel Bokassa (1921–1996), military ruler

Asia

India

• Sultan Salahuddin Owaisi (1931–2008), politician
• Sayeed Salahudeen (born 1946), head of the Hizbul Mujahideen in Kashmir
• Salahuddin Choudhudy, long-distance car-driver

Indonesia

• Salahuddin of Aceh (fl. 1530s), sultan of Aceh (Indonesia)

Bangladesh

• A.F. Salahuddin Ahmed (born 1924), historian
• Kazi Salahuddin (born 1953), footballer
• Sheikh Salahuddin (also known as Salahuddin Ahmed) (1969–2013), cricketer
• Gazi Salahuddin (born 1984), cricketer
• Arafat Salahuddin (born 1984), cricketer
• Salahuddin Ahmad, lawyer and politician

Malaysia

• Sultan Salehuddin Shah ibni Almarhum Daeng Chelak, known as Raja Lumu (1705–1778), Sultan of Selangor
• Salahuddin of Selangor (1926–2001), Yang di-Pertuan Agong of Malaysia and Sultan of Selangor
• Salahuddin Ayub, politician
• Abang Muhammad Salahuddin, Yang di-Pertua Negeri of Sarawak

Maldivia

• Husain Salaahuddin (1881–1948), writer, poet, essayist and scholar

Pakistan

• Salahuddin Mian (1938–2006), ceramic artist
• Nawab Salahuddin Abbasi (born 1946)(?), politician
• Salahuddin (cricketer) (born 1947), cricketer
• Salahuddin Toofani (1948–2008), actor and comedian
• Ghazi Salahuddin, journalist
• Adil Salahuddin, stamp designer

Thailand

• Salahudin Arware (born 1983), footballer

Europe

France

• Louis Saladin, seventeenth-century French composer.
• French Colonel Charles Saladin (1878-1942), inventor of Saladin box

Germany

• Paul Saladin Leonhardt (1877–1934), German chess master of Polish origins.

Switzerland

• Lorenz Saladin (1896–1936), Swiss mountain-climber, journalist, photographer and traveler.

UK

• William Stewart Ross (1844–1906), Scottish writer and publisher who used the pseudonym "Saladin".
• Richard Hickmet Richard Saladin Hickmet (born 1947), British politician.

Americas

Canada

• Bernard Saladin D'Anglure (born 1936, Canadian anthropologist and ethnographer.

USA

• Dawud Salahuddin (adopted name) (born 1950), American Muslim assassin
• Salahuddin Mustafa Muhammad, imam
• Saladin Martin (born 1956), American football player.
• Saladin Ahmed (born 1975), Arab-American science fiction and fantasy writer and poet

See also

• Salah ad-Din (disambiguation), for other uses of this name
• Saladin (disambiguation), for uses of that name in that form
• Selahattin, the Turkish version of the Muslim name Ṣalāḥ ad-Dīn