Sitt al-Sham bint Ayyub
ست الشام بنت أيوب
1220 CE · 616 AH
Sitt al-Sham (Zumurrud Khatun) bint Ayyub (d. 616) — Salah al-Din's sister, wife of Nasir al-Din b. Shirkuh lord of Homs; founded two Damascus madrasas — one inside by the Nuriyya bimaristan and one outside where she and her husband lie; Ibn al-Salah taught at her school among four posts 1.
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- The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks
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- Wafayat al-A'yan wa-Anba' Abna' al-Zaman — Ibn Khallikan
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