Saladin
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Saladin or Salah al-Din(arabic: صلاح الدين الأيوبي) was a Kurdish Muslim warrior who died March 4, 1193. He fought against the Christians in the Crusades. He was famous for defeating the Christian forces and retaking Jerusalem. Saladin defeated everyone that put an army against him, only being tested by Richard the Lion Heart(who was the King of England at the time).
He first overthrew the Fatimid dynasty of Egypt, abandoning its Shiite religion in the process, and then conqured Syria.