Who Was Alive

Saladin

Sultan of Egypt and founder of the Ayyubid dynasty

Born 1138 · died 4 March 1193, aged 54 or 55

Who was alive at the same time as Saladin?

  1. Peter Abelard
  2. Bernard of Clairvaux
  3. Hildegard of Bingen
  4. Abu Abdullah Muhammad al-Idrisi al-Qurtubi al-Hasani as-Sabti
  5. Frederick Barbarossa
  6. Averroes
  7. Zhu Xi
  8. Moshe ben Maimon
  9. Saladin
  10. Nizami Ganjavi
  11. Richard I of England
  12. Innocent III
  13. Genghis Khan
  14. John, King of England
  15. Shota Rustaveli
  16. Francis of Assisi
Drag across the timeline to see who was alive in any year and the age each person reached that year. Faded ends mark uncertain dates.

When Saladin was born, Averroes was 11 or 12, Zhu Xi was 7 or 8 and Frederick Barbarossa was 15 or 16.

When Saladin died, Genghis Khan was 30, Averroes was 66, Zhu Xi was 62, Richard I of England was 35 and Shota Rustaveli was 20 or 21.

Born during Saladin’s lifetime: Genghis Khan, Francis of Assisi, Richard I of England, Shota Rustaveli, Innocent III, John, King of England and Nizami Ganjavi.

Not quite contemporaries: Omar Khayyám died 7 years before Saladin was born, Rumi was born 14 years after Saladin died, Saadi was born 15 years after Saladin died and Albertus Magnus was born 5 years after Saladin died.

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