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