al-Malik al-ʿĀdil I - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE
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Eddé, Anne-Marie
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Al-Malik al-ʿĀdil I , Sayf al-Dīn Muḥammad b. Ayyūb (r. 596-615/1200-18), sultan of Egypt, Syria-Palestine, and Upper Mesopotamia, belonged to the Ayyūbid dynasty founded by his older brother Ṣalāḥ al-Dīn (Saladin, r. 569-89/1174-93). He was born in Baʿlabakk between 538/1144 and 540/1145 at a time when his father, Ayyūb, governed that city on behalf of the amīr of Aleppo, Zangī I (r. 522-41/1128-46). Like his father and brothers, he first entered the service of Zangī'