Editing Al-Adil I (section)

== Early life ==
[[File:Ayyubids of Mesopotamia.al Adil Sayf al Din Abu Bakr Muhammad I. As Governor in Mesopotamia, 1194-1199. Mayafariqin mint. Dated AH 591 (1194-1195 AD).jpg|thumb|300px|Coinage of Al Adil Sayf al Din Abu Bakr Muhammad I. As Governor in Mesopotamia (1194–1199). [[Mayyafariqin]] mint. Dated AH 591 (1194-1195 AD).]]

Al-Adil was a son of [[Najm ad-Din Ayyub]], he was member of [[Kurds|Kurdish]]<ref>Humphreys, R. S. [https://iranicaonline.org/articles/ayyubids "AYYUBIDS"], Encyclopædia Iranica; "''AYYUBIDS (Ar. Banū Ayyūb), a Kurdish family who first became prominent as members of the Zangid military establishment in Syria in the mid-sixth/twelfth century.''"</ref><ref>Mazaheri, Mas‘ud Habibi; Gholami, Rahim. [https://referenceworks.brillonline.com/entries/encyclopaedia-islamica/ayyubids-COM_0323?s.num=8&s.f.s2_parent=s.f.book.encyclopaedia-islamica&s.q=fatimid+caliph "Ayyūbids"], Encyclopaedia Islamica; "''Ayyūbids, a dynasty of Kurdish origin that ruled Egypt, Syria, the Jazīra and the Yemen in the 6th/12th and 7th/13th centuries."''</ref> [[Ayyubid dynasty|Ayyubid]] family and a younger brother of [[Saladin]]. He was born in June 1145, possibly in [[Damascus]]. He first achieved distinction as an officer in [[Nur ad-Din Zengi]]'s army during his uncle [[Shirkuh]]'s third and final campaign in [[Egypt]] (1168–1169); following Nur ad-Din's death in 1174, Al-Adil governed Egypt on behalf of his brother Saladin and mobilized that country's vast resources in support of his brother's campaigns in [[Syria]] and his war against the [[Crusade]]rs (1175–1183). He was governor of [[Aleppo]] (1183–1186) but returned to administer [[Egypt]] during the [[Third Crusade]] (1186–1192); as governor of Saladin's northern provinces (1192–1193), he suppressed the revolt of [[Izz ad-Din Mas'ud|'Izz Al-Din]] of [[Mosul]] following Saladin's death (March 1193). On Saladin's death he was governor of Damascus.

In 1190, [[King Richard I of England]] suggested to Al-Adil a marriage with his younger sister [[Joan of England, Queen of Sicily|Joan of England]], then his niece [[Eleanor, Fair Maid of Brittany]], but both were in vain, as Al-Adil showed no interest in [[Christianity]].<ref name=abhw>[http://www.abitofhistory.net/html/rhw/e.htm A Bit of History WebSite]</ref><ref name=ae>''The Angevin Empire''</ref>