He defeated the crusaders—and inspired a legend
Yale University Press; 520 pages; $32.50. Bodley Head; £25.has few Muslim heroes but, astonishingly, a 12th-century jihadist is one of them. Saladin broke onto the Middle East’s map in a drama not unlike the recent eruption of Islamic State. Born on the banks of the Tigris, he carved out an emirate which by his death in 1193 stretched from the modern-day borders of Tunisia to Yemen, Turkey and Iran. Powerful realms fell like matchsticks before him.
Yet the glowing contemporary accounts owed much to Saladin’s tame and prolific propagandists—courtiers, chroniclers and muftis who were rewarded handsomely for their efforts. Contrary to French bodice-rippers, he never seduced crusader princesses. Walter Scott’s “The Talisman”, in which a disguised Saladin heals an ailing Richard the Lionheart, is also bunk. The two men never met.
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