Saladin and the Fall of the Kingdom of Jerusalem

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Saladin, the primary sultan of Egypt and Syria, is an iconic figure in Middle Eastern history.

Stanley Lane-Poole’s acclaimed biography Saladin and the Fall of Jerusalem is a whole study of the life of this noted leader: his youth, upward push through twelfth-century Middle-Eastern politics, career as a military commander and the conquest of Egypt and Syria, and his intriguing clashes with Richard the Lionheart.

Throughout his life, Saladin established himself as a military commander of genius, a man of honour and an intrepid statesman, cementing his place within the annals of Middle-Eastern history.

The result of an entire life of study by eminent historian Lane-Poole, Saladin and the Fall of Jerusalem benefits from the wealthy and colourful chronicles of Arab and Moslem historians, providing us with a unique insight into the life and deeds of this fascinating figure.

“Stanley Lane-Poole has rendered valuable service in his different works by presenting quite a lot of phases of Oriental history and life in this type of way as to interest even the ones to whom such subjects are ordinarily a sealed book”.—The American Historical Review

Stanley Edward Lane-Poole, 18 December 1854, was once a British orientalist and archaeologist. Born in London, England, from 1874 to 1892 he worked within the British Museum, and after that in Egypt researching on Egyptian archaeology. From 1897 to 1904 he had a chair as Professor of Arabic studies at Dublin University. He died in 1931.

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