Explanation

The Crusades were a series of religious wars directed by the Latin Church in the medieval period period between 1095 and 1291

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Yusuf ibn Ayyub ibn Shadhi commonly known by the epithet Saladin

An important figure of the Third Crusade,

he spearheaded the Muslim military effort against the Crusader states in the Levant.

He was the founder of the Ayyubid dynasty.

Hailing from an ethnic Kurdish family,

he was the first sultan of both Egypt and Syria.