Saladin
The Politics of the Holy War

Malcolm Cameron Lyons (Author), D. E. P. Jackson (Author)

9780521317399, Cambridge University Press

Paperback, published 20 August 1984

468 pages
21.6 x 14 x 2.6 cm, 0.59 kg

'Lyons and Jackson have produced a distinguished and extremely well researched book which is likely to become a standard work in the field and become required reading for all students of Ayyubid history. it has the added merit of being accessible, as the authors themselves intend, to the non-Arab historian: despite its wealth of documentation and factual description it reads easily and will be readily understood by the non-specialist.' History Today

Saladin is one of the best known figures of the Middle Ages, and this study makes use of hitherto neglected Arabic sources, including unpublished manuscript material - -notably the correspondence, both private and official, of Saladin's own court -to set the whole of Saladin's career and achievements, civil and military, within the specific framework of his age.

Foreword
1. Early adventures
2. Vizier of Egypt
3. Lord of Egypt
4. The shadow of Syria
5. Independence
6. From Egypt to Syria
7. War and diplomacy
8. Egyptian interlude
9. Defeat and difficulties
10. Consolidation and expansion
11. Opportunities
12. The capture of Aleppo
13. Empire-building and the Holy War
14. The end of empire
15. Preparations
16. Hattin
17. The capture of Jerusalem
18. Success and failure
19. Crusaders at Acre
20. The fall of Acre
21. Stalemate
22. Conclusion
Plan of Cairo
Maps
Notes
Bibliography
Index.

Subject Areas: Early history: c 500 to c 1450/1500 [HBLC], Asian history [HBJF]