saladin Name: Meaning and History
 1)Muslim: from an Arabic personal name, ?Salla?h ud-Din ?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. 
 2)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.