| Book Description | Sultan Al-Nasir Salah al-Din remains an icon of the West before the East; as his morals were behind his weapons, and thus his weapons themselves had morals! He was a king whose nature was forgiveness, and he became generous and forgiving to the prisoners. Perhaps the greatest thing written about him is what the scholar Stanley Lane-Poole wrote and embellished in the pages of this book. Follow his biography, starting from his cradle in Tikrit, then his childhood and early youth in Baalbek and Damascus, then his joining the service of the just king Nur al-Din Mahmud in Damascus, then his arrival in Egypt with his uncle Asad al-Din Shirkuh, then his visit to al-Adid al-Ubaidi in Cairo, then his sultanate and his two glorious victories over the Zengid dynasty in the centuries of Hama and Tell al-Sultan, then his unification of the Levant - especially Aleppo - and the Euphrates Peninsula, then his great and clear victory at Hattin, then his conquest of the city of Jerusalem and his elimination of the Frankish kingdom of Jerusalem, Then he confronted the Third Crusade, made peace with King Richard I, and ended with his death in Damascus. |
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