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on Salah al-Din al-Ayubi  (Saladin)

(Preliminary Version)

 

Revisionist Studies:

  • al-kilani, Majd 'Arsan: Hakatha dhara jail salah al-din wa hakatha a'dat al-qudus,  Damascus: Dar al-Qalam, 2001. (pdf)

  • Mustafa, Shakir: Salah al-din: al-faris al-mujahid wa-al-malik al-zahid al-muftra 'alyah, Damascus: Dar al-Qalam, 1998. (pdf)

  • note to self add salabi's works

Original Source References:

  • Ibn Shaddad, Baha' al-din: Al-Nawadir al-sultaniya wa-'l mahasan al-yusefya, ed. Schultens, Cairo, 1317/1899-1900. Eng. Tr. The Rare and Excellent History of Saladin (pdf).

  • al-Isfahani, al-katib Imad al-din: al-Baraq al-Shami Mss.

  • al-Isfahani, al-katib Imad al-din: al-Fatah al-Qudsi ed. Landberg, Leyden, 1886.

  • Abu Shama, Kitab al-Rawdatin, ed. M. Hilmi. M. Ahmad, Cairo, 1956.

General Reference:

  • Gibb, Hamilton, The Life of Saladin: From the works of 'Imad ad-din and Baha' ad-din, Oxford, 1973. (pdf)

  • al-Isfahani, Imad ad-Din: Conquête de la Syrie et de la Palestine par Salâh ed-dîn, ed. Carlo Landberg, Brill, 1888.

  • Lane-Poole, Stanley: Saladin and the Fall of the Kingdom of Jerusalem, Putnam, 1898.

  • Lyons, M. C.  and D. E. P. Jackson: Saladin: the Politics of the Holy War, Cambridge University Press, 1982.

Specialized References: These texts provide specific information on Saladin in the Muslim world :

  • On the Battle of Hattin. (power point presentation.) (coming soon)

  • Osprey's military Series:

    • Nicolle, David: Hattin 1187, Saladin's greatest victory (Campaign 19); Osprey, Oxford, 1993.

    • Nicolle, David: Saracen Faris, AD 1050–1250 (Warrior 10); Osprey, Oxford, 1994.

    • Nicolle, David: Saladin and the Saracens (Men-at-Arms 171), Osprey, Oxford, 1986.

    • Nicolle, David: The Third Crusade 1191: Richard the Lionheart, Saladin and the struggle for Jerusalem (Campaign 161), Osprey, Oxford, 2005.

 

 

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