Shirkuh

1110–1169

Kurdish Zengid general and uncle of Saladin

politician · military leader

Born in Ayrarat

Contemporaries

People who walked the earth at the same time as Shirkuh:

Omar Khayyám (1048–1131)
Saladin (1138–1193)
Averroes (1126–1198)
Zhu Xi (1130–1200)
Hildegard of Bingen (1098–1179)
Moshe ben Maimon (1138–1204)
Peter Abelard (1079–1142)
Frederick Barbarossa (1122–1190)

See everyone who was alive in 1110 · 1120 · 1130 · 1140 · 1150 · 1160.