Fatimah Khatun bint Najm ad-Dīn Abu al-Shukr Ayyub ibn Shādhi ibn Marwān (died 1220), popularly known as Sitt al-Sham, was a second sister of
Saladin, probably older than
Rabi'a Khatun. She is known for founding
Al-Shamiyah al-Kubra Madrasa.
Biography
Born in
Damascus
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, she was the wife of
Muhammad ibn Shirkuh of
Homs
Homs ( , , , ; ar, حِمْص / ALA-LC: ; Levantine Arabic: / ''Ḥomṣ'' ), known in pre-Islamic Syria as Emesa ( ; grc, Ἔμεσα, Émesa), is a city in western Syria and the capital of the Homs Governorate. It is Metres above sea level ...
. Some historians are confused regarding her name; they think it to be ''Zumurrud''. His father was called
al-Malik al-Afdal as he was a minister with his brother
Asad ad-Din Shirkuh
Asad ad-Dīn Shīrkūh bin Shādhī (; ar, أسد الدين شيركوه بن شاذي), also known as Shirkuh, or Şêrko (meaning "lion of the mountains" in Kurdish) (died 22 February 1169) was a Kurdish military commander, and uncle of Salad ...
in the court of
Nur ad-Din Zengi.
[''al-Nawādir al-Sultaniyya wa'l-Maḥāsin al-Yūsufiyya'' by Bahā' ad-Dīn ibn Shaddād]
She married Umar ibn Lājīn and gave birth to their first child, Husām al-Dīn ibn Lājīn. Her first husband Umar ibn Lajin died shortly thereafter. Then she married his paternal cousin, Muhammad ibn Shirkuh, who was the ruler of Homs.
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1220 deaths
Year of birth unknown
13th-century Muslims
Kurdish Sunni Muslims
People from the Ayyubid Sultanate
13th-century Kurdish people