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Al-Awhad Ayyub
Wikipedia's first sentence called it “third ayyubid ruler”. Today it says “third ayyubid emir”.
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Al-Malik al-Awhad Najm ad-Din Ayyub ibn al-Adil Abu Bakr ibn Najm ad-Din Ayyub (died 1210) was the third Kurdish Ayyubid emir (prince) of the Diyarbakir emirate, centered in Mayyafariqin , between 1200-1210 CE.1 He was the fourth eldest son of Sultan al-Adil I of Egypt (r. 1200–1218).
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third ayyubid ruler
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third ayyubid emir
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