dynasty predecessor successor death_date title birth_date article_title name
ayyubid dynasty saladin al-mansur nasir al-din muhammad 29 november 1198 sultan of egypt 1171 al-aziz uthman
 al-aziz uthman
al-aziz uthman

al-malik al-aziz osman bin salahadin yusuf -lrb- 1171 -- 29 november 1198 -rrb- was a kurdish muslim ruler and the second ayyubid sultan of egypt .
he was the second son of saladin .
before his death , saladin had divided his dominions amongst his kin : al-afdal received palestine and syria , al-aziz was made ruler of egypt , al-zahir received aleppo , al-adil received karak and shawbak , and turan-shah retained yemen .
however , conflict soon broke out between them with al-adil becoming the undisputed ruler of syria , upper mesopotamia , egypt , and arabia .
al-aziz uthman succeeded his father and ruled the empire as a whole between 1193 and 1198 .
despite al-aziz having specifically inherited suzerainty over the whole ayyubid empire , soon he had to face revolts by the zengid emirs of mosul , by sanjar and by the artuqids in southern iraq .
when al-afdal expelled all the ministers left by his father to support him , they came to egypt , asking al-aziz to reconquer syria .
in al-aziz besieged damascus .
so al-afdal asked for help from saladin 's brother , al-adil , who met al-aziz and managed to bring about a reconciliation .
the following year al-aziz again attacked syria , but al-afdal was able to persuade some of the emirs of al-aziz 's army to desert .
later al-adil allied with al-aziz against al-afdal , who was besieged and captured in damascus on 3 july 1196 .
al-afdal was exiled to salkhad , while al-aziz was proclaimed supreme overlord of the ayyubid empire .
however , most of the effective power was in the hands of al-adil , who installed himself in damascus .
during his reign , al-aziz tried to demolish the great pyramids of giza , egypt , but had to give up because the task was too big .
however , he did succeed in damaging menkaure 's pyramid .
al-aziz also played an important role in the history of the building enterprises and construction at banias and subaybah .
he died in a hunting accident in late 1198 .
he was interred in the tomb of his elder brother al-mu ` azzam .
