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File Size: 1429 KB

Print Length: 242 pages

Publisher: Zengid Press (September 18, 2017)

Publication Date: September 18, 2017

Sold by: Amazon Digital Services LLC

Language: English

ASIN: B075R13YQK

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In his introduction to this book, Lane-Poole claims that "no complete Life of the celebrated adversary of Richard Coeur de Lion" is available in the English language. This may have been true when the book was written at the end of the 19th century, but it is no longer the case. Seduced by the low price and thinking that the biography of someone who lived 800 years ago need not be recent, I bought the biography anyway. It was a mistake.While understanding that every biographer is to some extent the captive of his/her sources, this book is far more than biased: it is a long eulogy that singularly fails to provide the analysis and context vital to a good biography. Instead, Lane-Poole slavishly follows his pro-Saladin sources without standing back to question or balance these sources with information drawn from other chronicles and historians or - indeed - simple common sense.For example, he repeatedly mentions that Christian clerics were prepared to absolve Christian leaders of oaths made to non-Christians - but does not once mention that Muslim clerics told their fighting men exactly the same thing only in reverse: that they need not keep their word with non-Muslims. Likewise, it gets very tedious to have every tactical defeat of a Christian force portrayed as a "humiliating retreat" with the Christians slinking away "with their tails between their legs" - in one case this was after just one week in the field! -- while every set back Saladin suffered (and he sometimes spent many months in pointless sieges!) is explained away as a wise decision not to pursue a time-consuming campaign or the need to let his troops go home to see their families. Indeed, Lane-Poole mentions several times how attached Muslims are to their wives and children, but does not credit Christians with the same feelings.As for Saladin's defeat at Mont Gisard, where Saladin's army of 20,000 was put to flight by roughly 500 knights led by a 16 year old suffering from leprosy, it is glossed over as "inexplicable" and takes up less than two pages of the narrative. A real historian would have been intent on explaining both how it happened - and what Saladin learned from it; as a biographer, the latter point is particularly important as such a bitter defeat (Saladin had to escape on a pack camel and lost almost his entire body guard) surely left its scars on his psyche.It is likewise the mark of a dilettante rather than a historian to claim that Richard I "was honeymooning" on Cyprus, when in fact he was conquering the island from a tyrant and by so doing secured the lines-of-communication and a breadbasket for the crusader states for the next hundred years. Indeed, the Latin Kingdom of Cyprus outlived the crusader kingdoms by more than 200 years.In fairness, however, I should mention that Lane-Poole clearly had visited Cairo and Damascus and other key cities, and his careful and intelligible descriptions of what they were like in Saladin's time and what had changed since (upto his present in the late 19th century) were the highlights of this bookYet Lane-Poole's bias in favor of Islam is so extreme it is even applied to little things such as the way the "wooden [sic] bells of the Christians harshly clashed [wood?] instead of the sweet and solemn chant of the muezzin." (As someone who hears the call to prayers five times a day, I beg to differ with that utterly subjective statement!)About four fifths of the way through the book, Lane-Poole casts aside all pretense of being a historian and biographer and declares his partisanship in the statement: "But the students of the Crusades do not need to be told that in the struggle of civilization, magnanimity, toleration, real chivalry, and gentle culture were all on the side of the Saracens." (Chapter XIX) Now, students of the crusades know just the opposite: that there were atrocities, betrayals, cruelties, excesses and also magnanimity, generosity, courage and gentle culture on BOTH sides.The greatest weakness of this book is that by its excessive bias it detracts from its hero. Saladin deserves our respect because he was exceptional, not because he was perfect. Saladin stands out as an impressive and attractive example of integrity, tenacity, leadership, piety and generosity - particularly when compared to his successors, such as Baibars. He was undoubtedly a more chivalrous figure than Guy de Lusignan, and even Christians despised and repudiated butchers like Ranaud de Chatillon. But Saladin deserves a real biography that attempts to explain him as a statesmen and a military leader; this book is not it. I strongly recommend therefore more recent biographies of Saladin -- they are worth the higher price.

Wonderful presentation of this very complex period in history of middle east. Well written and very readable if your interests tend toward history and especially the history of an part of the world which continues to capture our interest in its current state of constant upheaval

Recently, I saw the 2005 film THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN, a sword and shield epic centered upon the 1187 recapture of Jerusalem from the Christians by Sultan Yusuf Ibn Najni al-Din Ayyub Ibn Shadlhi Abu'l-Muzaffar Salah al-Din al-Malik al-Nasir, aka "Saladin". The hero of the film was not Saladin (Ghassan Massoud), but rather Balian (Orlando Bloom), who, as the film opens, is sweating over a hot forge as a sword maker in some dump of a rural French town in the early 1180s. Then, along comes Godfrey (Liam Neeson), a knight and minor noble back from Palestine, who reveals himself as Balian's previously unknown father. Godfrey persuades Balian to take up a sword in defense of the Holy Land. On the return trip, Godfrey dies, but not before knighting his son. Balian subsequently inherits his father's castle of Ibelin within the Kingdom of Jerusalem, becomes chummy with King Baldwin IV and his sister Sibylla (Eva Green), finds himself defending the Holy City almost single-handed against Saladin's horde after the Christian army's disastrous defeat at Hitton, and ultimately returns to France, where he ostensibly lives happily ever after with Sibylla, who now holds the title Queen of Jerusalem. Uh-huh. So, I picked up SALADIN AND THE FALL OF JERUSALEM to find out the real story.Penned in 1898 by Stanley Lane-Poole, this volume is a competent and informative bio of the great Muslim leader, who was respected and praised even by his Crusader foes. Admittedly, the first several chapters dealing with "Saladin's world", and which describe the Muslim politics of the region and the events of the First Crusade prior to Saladin's birth and rise to power, make for educational, but less than riveting, reading. It's only with Saladin's accession as the Sultan of Egypt in 1171 that his life really becomes interesting as he subsequently labors militarily and politically to unite the Muslim Middle East under one rule, i.e. his, drive the Unbelievers into the sea, and topple the Kingdom of Jerusalem.The book's 19th century roots show even in this 2002 reprint of the original. The occasional map, while certainly not indecipherable, doesn't have the clean look of one of modern construction. More telling, the author infrequently sprinkles the text with passages from original Latin or French sources, which go untranslated. Presumably, the average reader at the turn of the 19th century was more educated and literate than now and could be expected to get along as required in something other than English. This new reprint does, however, include a helpful section of black and white photographs that apparently, because of the presence of automobiles, didn't appear in the first release.The tone of Lane-Poole's narrative is one of detached and uncritical admiration for his hero, as justifiably it should be, since Saladin demonstrated more chivalry, magnanimity, and honor throughout his career than his chief Crusader opponent from June 8, 1191 to October 9, 1192, King Richard I of England. Indeed, the author, who's otherwise adulatory of the Lionheart's prowess in battle, doesn't shirk from recounting Richard's barbarous order to massacre 2,700 Muslims taken prisoner during his capture of Acre, an order that the author terms "cruel and cowardly", and would today be cause for a war crimes tribunal. Well, so much for the flower of English chivalry.SALADIN AND THE FALL OF JERUSALEM should satisfy a reader such as myself that seeks a general knowledge of Saladin and his accomplishments without getting too obsessive about it.And what of Balian? While he was one of only three knights left after the Battle of Hitton to defend Jerusalem, and who indeed played the key role in the defense of the city and subsequent surrender negotiations with Saladin, Balian had only a relatively small part in the rest of the story - so small that I had to resort to a Web encyclopedia to get more info about the man. What I learned there was that his saga in THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN was rampant fiction evidently hallucinated by a Hollywood screenwriter in the throes of an illegal substance. Especially that bit about running off with Sybilla. Gee, why doesn't that surprise me?

If you are interested in the Crusades, this is the book for you. It tells the story of where Salidin came from, how he attained his control of the "saracens" army, his conquering of much of the Frankish kingdoms, and finally, Richard the Lionhearts' retaking of much of those kingdoms, as well as his attempt to take back Jerusalem.

A solid effort to accurately portray this remarkable individual. A terrific accounting along with a good, though brief history of Jerusalem.

Well told account of both a man and a time

Great

This is a good history of Saladin's work and life. I was looking for more about the family and the dynasty, which is not here.

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