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On the death of his uncle Shirkuh, Saladin (Salah ad-din) becomes commander of Syrian troops in Egypt, orders the assassination of Fatimid vizier Shawar, and is appointed to replace him by al-Adid, the last Faimid caliph.
Averroes (Ibn Rushd), an Islamic philosopher in Cordoba, Spain, completes the first of his many influential commentaries on the writings of Aristotle.
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