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Published in 1825 it is set during the Third Crusade and centres on the relationship between Richard I of England and Saladin. The Crusades trilogy (1998–2000) by Jan Guillou is about a young nobleman from present-day Sweden who is exiled and forced to participate in the Crusades in the Middle East. In it he comes across Saladin who in the ...
Saladin: The Politics of the Holy War. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-31739-8. Omran, Mahmud Said (1985). "King Amalric and the Siege of Alexandria, 1167". In Peter W. Edbury (ed.). Crusade and Settlement. Papers read at the First Conference of the Society for the Study of the Crusades and the Latin East and presented to R. C ...
In England and France, the Saladin tithe was enacted to raise funds for the new crusade. [55] The subsequent Third Crusade did not get underway until 1189, but was a very successful military operation through which many Christian holdings were restored.
The most important sources written during or shortly after the events are: The al-Nawādir al-Sultaniyya wa'l-Maḥāsin al-Yūsufiyya ("Anecdotes of the Sultan and Virtues of Yusuf", in 2001 translated by D. S. Richards as The Rare and Excellent History of Saladin), an Arabic biography of Saladin written by the Kurdish chronicler Baha ad-Din ibn Shaddad who served in Saladin's camp and was an ...
At the end of September, Balian rode out with an envoy to meet with the sultan, offering surrender. Saladin told Balian that he had sworn to take the city by force, and would only accept an unconditional surrender. [9] Saladin told Balian that Saladin's banner had been raised on the city wall, but his army was driven back.
From Saladin to the Mongols: The Ayyubids of Damascus, 1193-1260. SUNY Press. ISBN 9780873952637. Lane-Poole, Stanley (1906). Saladin and the Fall of the Kingdom of Jerusalem. G.P. Putnam's Sons. Möhring, Hannes (2008). Saladin: The Sultan and His Times, 1138–1193. Johns Hopkins University Press. ISBN 9780801889912. Richards, Donald Sidney ...
Saladin successfully captured Ayla from the Crusaders. Ayla was located at the head of gulf of Aqaba, which was a key for the pilgrimage route in Red Sea for Mecca . [ 1 ] In 1115/1116, Baldwin I of Jerusalem captured the position, establishing the southernmost point for the Latin kingdom.
People's Crusade. The People's Crusade (1096). A prelude to the First Crusade led by Peter the Hermit. See above. Children's Crusade. The Children's Crusade (1212) was a failed Popular Crusade by the West to regain the Holy Land. The traditional narrative includes some factual and some mythical events including visions by a French boy and a ...