Saladin — Encyclopaedia Britannica

Britannica biography of Saladin by Paul E. Walker and the Britannica editors; it gives his birth at Tikrit in 1137/38, his vizierate in Egypt in 1169, the end of the Fatimid caliphate in 1171, the unification of Syria, Mesopotamia, Palestine and Egypt from 1174 to 1186, the recovery of Jerusalem on 2 October 1187, and his death at Damascus on 4 March 1193.