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Title : Saladin – The Politics of the Holy War
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Product Line : Historical Books (Cambridge University Press)
Category : Historical Books
Sub-category : Historical Reference Books
Genre : Book – Reference – Historical
Author : Malcolm C. Lyons
Publish Year : 1997
Pages : 464
Dimensions : 5.5×8.5×1.5″
NKG Part # : 2147571154
MFG. Part # : 0-521-58562-7
Type : Softcover Saladin was one of the best-known figures of the Middle Ages. The West accepted him as a hero; Islam was indebted to him for the recovery of Jerusalem. Much of his life, however, was spent in fighting his fellow Muslims, and what unity he managed to impose on his dominions was shattered at his death. The history of his career is complicated by the fact that as well as being a military leader he was a diplomat, politician, and administrator, but the details of his manipulation of power in these several spheres shed important light on the structure of Islam, its unifying and divisive elements, and the society I which these operated.
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