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Book SynopsisText in Arabic. Saladin was an outsider whose life was filled with paradox. Famous for driving the crusaders out of Jerusalem, and becoming the most powerful man in the Islamic empire, he died penniless, without enough money to line his coffin. In this ground-breaking biography, translated for the first time into Arabic, Abdel Rahman Azzam uncovers the real Saladin, placing him in historical context against the backdrop of the 10th and 11th-century Sunni revival, a powerful sweeping intellectual renaissance that would ultimately transform every field of Islamic thought.
Trade Review'Absorbing' Financial Times, UK 'Timely and well-written' Irish News His book is a comprehensive survey not just of the man, but of the age in which he lived Edinburgh Evening News, UK
