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| Glossary of Main Names | |
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| Map of Jerusalem | |
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| Prologue:Separating the Man from the Myth | |
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| The Weakening of the Abbasid Caliph and the Sunni Revival | |
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| Disputes between Sunnis and Shiites | |
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| Building a new Sunni orthodoxy | |
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| The Turning of the Tide | |
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| The arrival of the Crusades in Syria | |
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| The establishment of Saladins father and uncle | |
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| The rise of Nur al-Din and the spread of madrasas | |
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| The Young Saladin | |
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| The religious milieu in which Saladin grew up | |
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| The beginning of the Islamic counter-crusade | |
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| The education of Saladin | |
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| The Battle for Egypt | |
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| The Fatimids: the sick man of the Nile | |
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| Shirkuhs campaign | |
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| The emergence of Saladin and the siege of Alexandria | |
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| The Unlikely Vizier | |
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| The death of Shirkuh and the appointment of Saladin as vizier | |
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| The rise of al-Qadi al-Fadil | |
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| Master of Egypt | |
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| The crushing of the Sudanese uprising and the dismantlement of the Fatimid state | |
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| The establishment of Saladins authority in Egypt | |
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| The introduction of Sunni orthodoxy to Egypt | |
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| The Prize of Syria | |
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| The death of Nur al-Din and Amalric | |
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| The power struggle in Syria | |
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| Saladin marches into Syria, and the challenge of Aleppo | |
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| The Meddlesome Priest: Saladin and al-Khabushani | |
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| Madrasa building in Egypt | |
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| The relationship between Saladin and the ulama | |
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| The Sunnification of Egypt | |
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| Saladin and the Leper King | |
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| Baldwin IV and the Kingdom of Jerusalem | |
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| Saladins defeat at Mont Gisard | |
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| The death of Nur al-Dins son and the struggle for northern Syria | |
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| Sailing Close to Disaster: Saladins Illness at Harran | |
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| The death of Baldwin IV | |
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| Saladins march on Mosul | |
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| Saladins illness | |
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| Saladin and al-Qadi al-Fadil: renewed vows | |
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| Victory at Hattin | |
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| Saladin gathers his army | |
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| Deliberations in the Franks camp | |
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| The march to Tiberias | |
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| The capture of the True Cross | |
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| Saladin slays Reynauld of Chatillon | |
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| The Return of Jerusalem | |
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| The collapse of the Latin Kingdom | |
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| Saladin besieges Jerusalem | |
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| The triumphant entry into Jerusalem | |
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| The Arrival of Richard | |
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| Conrad fortifies Tyre | |
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| The siege of Acre | |
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| The fragmentation of Saladins army | |
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| The fall of Acre and the massacre of the 3,000 | |
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| The march towards Jaffa | |
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| Saladins defeat at Arsuf | |
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| A Bitter Siege of Attrition: Saladin, Richard and Jerusalem | |
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| The death of Taqi al-Din | |
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| Saladin fortifies Jerusalem | |
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| The attack on Jaffa and the defiance of Richard | |
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| Peace negotiations and the departure of Richard | |
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| Death in Damascus: Saladins Last Days | |
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| The return to Damascus | |
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| Saladins illness | |
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| Saladins death and the mourning of the people | |
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| Saladin: an assessment | |
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| Notes | |
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| Index | |