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SALADIN The Sultan Who Vanquished the Crusaders and Built an Islamic Empire John Man, Da Capo Press, Boston, 2016, 312 pages
John Man is a historian and travel writer. In Saladin: The Sultan Who Vanquished the Crusaders and Built an Islamic Empire, not only does he onicle the life of Saladin, the iconic hero of Islam, but also he provides a thorough historical context of the twelfth-century Middle East. Man examines the virtues of Saladin the individual, as well as the persona of his iconic status.
Man details Saladin's birth in Tikrit, his rise...