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Saladin and his Admirers: A Biographical Reassessment1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 December 2009

P. M. Holt
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‘The life and achievements of Saladin constitute one of the great moments in the history of the crusades. In literature he appears most frequently as a conquering hero, who fought his enemies victoriously and in the end beat them to a standstill. But a closer examination of his actual life reveals him not only as a conqueror, but as a man who struggled with enemies of his own side who finally joined him and fought along with him under his sole command. From this angle we see him as a man who fought for his ideals, and fought, not victoriously, but in a measure that fell short of his hopes and ambitions’.

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Bulletin of SOAS , Volume 46 , Issue 2 , June 1983 , pp. 235 - 239
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Copyright © School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London 1983

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