The life and legend of the Sultan Saladin / Jonathan Phillips.

• Maps -- Dramatis personae and a notes on names -- Introduction: Damascus 2009 -- Part I: The life of Saladin / 1 The Muslim Near East and the First Crusade -- 2 Nur al-Din and the city of Damascus -- 3 Nur al-Din and the rise of the jihad -- 4 Shirkuh, Saladin and the conquest of Egypt -- 5 Saladin's succcession in Egypt -- 6 Steps towards independence: the break with Nur al-Din -- 7 Saladin's takeover of Damascus: open ambitions -- 8 Progress stalls -- 9 Victory at Jacob's Ford -- 10 Saladin, Cairo and the River Nile -- 11 Progress in Syria and Reynald's Red Sea raid -- 12 Final preparations: the sieges of Kerak and Mosul -- 13 The battle of Hattin -- 14 The capture of Jerusalem -- 15 The siege of Tyre -- 16 The siege of Acre, part I: 1189-90 -- 17 The siege of Acre, part II: the threat from the north -- 18 The arrival of Philip Augustus and Richard the Lionheart: the fall of Acre -- 19 Battles of sword and words: Arsuf and diplomacy -- 20 1192: family feuding, the battle of Jaffa and the end of the Third Crusade -- 21 Peace at last -- Part II: Afterlife / 22 Saladin's reputation in the West -- 23 The view from the East: from the medieval age to the late nineteenth century -- 24 Early Arab nationalism expressed through theatre, books and newspapers -- 25 Struggles for independence in Syria, Egypt and Palestine -- 26 Looking for a new Saladin, c.1950-2001 -- Conclusion -- Writing the histoy of Saladin -- Acknowledgements -- Illustration credits -- Bibliography -- Abbreviations -- Notes -- Index.

• When Saladin recaptured Jerusalem from the Crusaders in 1187, returning the Holy City to Islamic rule for the first time in almost ninety years, he sent shockwaves throughout Christian Europe and the Muslim Near East that reverberate today. It was the culmination of a supremely exciting life, fraught with challenges but blessed occasionally with marvellous good fortune. Born into a significant Kurdish family in northern Iraq, Saladin shot to power far way in Egypt under the tutelage of his uncle. Over two decades, this warrior and diplomat worked tirelessly to build an immense empire that stretched from North Africa to Western Iraq. His even greater achievement was political uniting this turbulent coalition of people from a bewildering variety of religious and ethnic backgrounds behind his assault on the Holy Lands. And yet the capturing of Jerusalem was by no means the end of Saladin's epic and confounding story. Drawing primarily on Arabic as well as European sources, this is the most comprehensive account yet written not just of the man but of the legend to which he gave birth, describing vividly the relentless action of his life and then tracing its aftermath through culture and politics all the way to the present. 

Ämnesord

Kungar och härskare  (sao)

Tredje korståget 1189-1192  (sao)

Crusades  -- Third, 1189-1192. (LCSH)

Crusades.  (fast)

Kings and rulers.  (fast)

Kings and rulers  (LCSH)

Crusades - Third, 1189-1192  (LCSH)

Egypt  -- Kings and rulers -- Biography. (LCSH)

Syria  -- Kings and rulers -- Biography. (LCSH)

Islamic Empire  -- History -- 750-1258. (LCSH)

Egypt.  (fast)

Islamic Empire.  (fast)

Syria.  (fast)

Syrien 

Egypten 

750-1258  (fast)

Genre

Biographies.  (fast)

Biography.  (fast)

History.  (fast)

Personnamn

Saladin, Sultan of Egypt and Syria, 1137-1193.

Saladin, Sultan of Egypt and Syria, 1137-1193.

Saladin, sultan av Egypten och Syrien, 1137-1193

Konferensnamn

Crusades (Third : 1189-1192)

Klassifikation

DS38.4.S2 (LCC)

956.014092 (DDC)

Koa (kssb/8 (machine generated))