Saladin Hero of Islam
Saladin Hero of Islam The book's inside flap reads that what we have before us is a sympathetic study of Saladin. In truth though what we do have is a steroid-driven sympathetic biography. That aside, Geoffrey Hindley standing is untouchable with his scholarship beyond reproach. Inclusive are four maps and fourteen illustrationsnotwithstanding a welcome glossarycementing its place as mandatory reading for those wishing to comprehend the life and times of a Hero of Islam. Flicking through the preceding one-hundred-and-eighty-eight pages to the epilogue, Hindley eruditely pens what is arguably uppermost on the minds of contemporariesin essence, parallels between then and now. But why the interest? Well, for two reasons. First, because of his association with this ancient and historic zone of conflict. Saladin has special interest for a modern writer (pp. xiii, 181). Second, as a British-based scholar recently held, we are pre-programmed to seek out parallels and correlations (this pedagogic practice is not restricted to a north-western European archipelago neitherfor PBS previously aired Empires Holy Warriors which opens with a sequence comparing Osama Bin Laden to Saladin and George W. Bush to Richard the Lionheart). When Saladin Hero of Islam was initially published (as Saladin A Biography) just over thirty years ago the obvious parallel to draw between the world of Saladin and the contemporary world was that between the Kingdom of Jerusalem
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