Al-Afdal
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Al-Afdal is an Arab
ic name which means "Most Superior". It may refer to:
Arab
Arab people, also known as Arabs , are a panethnicity primarily living in the Arab world, which is located in Western Asia and North Africa. They are identified as such on one or more of genealogical, linguistic, or cultural grounds, with tribal affiliations, and intra-tribal relationships playing...
ic name which means "Most Superior". It may refer to:
- Al-Afdal ShahanshahAl-Afdal Shahanshahal-Malik al-Afdal ibn Badr al-Jamali Shahanshah was a vizier of the Fatimid caliphs of Egypt.- Ascent to power :He was born in Acre, the son of Badr al-Jamali, an Armenian who became Muslim. Badr was vizier for the Fatimids in Cairo from 1074 until his death in 1094, when al-Afdal succeeded him...
, (1066-1121), - Al-Afdal ibn Salah ad-DinAl-Afdal ibn Salah ad-DinAl-Afdal ibn Salah ad-din popularly known as Al-Afdal was one of seventeen sons of Saladin. He succeeded his father as the second emir of Damascus. He was the leader of the Ayyubids in the Battle of Cresson.-Biography:...
(1186-1196), an Arabic ruler and eldest son of SaladinSaladinṢalāḥ ad-Dīn Yūsuf ibn Ayyūb , better known in the Western world as Saladin, was an Arabized Kurdish Muslim, who became the first Sultan of Egypt and Syria, and founded the Ayyubid dynasty. He led Muslim and Arab opposition to the Franks and other European Crusaders in the Levant...
who inherited Damascus - Al-Afdal al-AbbasAl-Afdal al-AbbasAl-Afdal al-Abbas was a ruler of Yemen and a member of the Turkic Rasulid dynasty. He produced a multilingual "dictionary" defining terms in Arabic, Persian language, Turkic, Greek, Armenian, and Mongolian language....
(1363-1377), a ruler of Yemen