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Index
Cover
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
Maps
Dramatis Personae and a Note on Names
Preface
Introduction: Damascus 2009
Part I: The Life of Saladin
1 The Muslim Near East and the First Crusade
2 Nur al-Din and the City of Damascus
3 Nur al-Din and the Rise of the Jihad
4 Shirkuh, Saladin and the Conquest of Egypt
5 Saladin’s Succession in Egypt
6 Steps Towards Independence: The Break with Nur al-Din
7 Saladin’s Takeover of Damascus: Open Ambitions
8 Progress Stalls
9 Victory at Jacob’s Ford
10 Saladin, Cairo and the River Nile
11 Progress in Syria and Reynald’s Red Sea Raid
12 Final Preparations: The Sieges of Kerak and Mosul
13 The Battle of Hattin
14 The Capture of Jerusalem
15 The Siege of Tyre
16 The Siege of Acre, Part I: 1189–90
17 The Siege of Acre, Part II: The Threat from the North
18 The Arrival of Philip Augustus and Richard the Lionheart: The Fall of Acre
19 Battles of Sword and Words: Arsuf and Diplomacy
20 1192: Family Feuding, the Battle of Jaffa and the End of the Third Crusade
21 Peace at Last
Part II: Afterlife
22 Saladin’s Reputation in the West
23 The View from the East: From the Medieval Age to the late Nineteenth Century
24 Early Arab Nationalism Expressed Through Theatre, Books and Newspapers
25 Struggles for Independence in Syria, Egypt and Palestine
26 Looking for a New Saladin, c.1950–2001
Conclusion
Writing the History of Saladin
Acknowledgements
Illustration Credits
Bibliography
Abbreviations
Notes
Index
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