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Baha ad-Din ibn Shaddad
Kurdish historian and scholar, biographer of Saladin (1145–1234) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Bahāʾ al-Dīn Abū al-Maḥāsin Yūsuf ibn Rāfiʿ ibn Tamīm (Arabic: بهاء الدين ابن شداد; the honorific title "Bahā' ad-Dīn" means "splendor of the faith"; sometimes known as Bohadin or Boha-Eddyn[1]) (6 March 1145 – 8 November 1234)[2] was a 12th-century Kurdish[3] jurist, scholar and historian notable for writing a biography of Saladin whom he knew well.[4]
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