Last name origins & meanings:
- Muslim: from an Arabic personal name, ̣Sallạ̄h
ud-Dīn ‘righteousness of religion’. This was the title adopted
by Yusuf ibn-Ayyub, sultan of Egypt (1138–93), known to the western
world as Saladin, who opposed, for the most part successfully,
the Crusades undertaken by Richard I of England and Philip II of
France. This name is widespread throughout the Muslim world.
- French: nickname for a blustering or tyrannical individual, from
the name of the medieval Egyptian sultan (see 1 above), who, because
of his success in combating the Crusaders, became demonized in French
and Italian folklore as a monster second only to Herod.
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