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Saladin Information
3,297 words, approx. 11 pages
 Saladin, properly known as Salah al-Dīn Yusuf ibn Ayyub (Arabic: صلاح الدين الأيوبي, Kurdish: Selah'edînê Eyubî or سهلاحهدین ئهیوبی) (c. 1138 – March 4, 1193),[1] Sultan of Egypt and Syria, was a...




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 World Literature Today
The Book of Saladin.(Review) (book review)
01/01/2000: 587 words, approx. 2 pages Tariq Ali. The Book of Saladin. London/New York. Verso. 1998. xvi + 367 pages. [pound]17/$23. isbn 1-85984-834-6. Tariq Ali is not only a journalist and filmmaker; he is also an old- fashioned novelist who likes to write large books on important issues...
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Ridley Scott's Kingdom of Heaven: The War on Terror's Bloody Past
5/8/2005: 2,056 words, approx. 7 pages Ridley Scott's Kingdom of Heaven, from a screenplay by William Monohan, was reportedly conceived before the invasion of Iraq pitted contemporary Christian soldiers against their Muslim counterparts. Even so, before Iraq, there had been ever-increasing tensions between Christians and Muslims in the wake of 9/11....
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Ruthless Iraqi dictator hanged at age 69
12/30/2006: 1,094 words, approx. 4 pages Within days of taking power, Saddam Hussein summoned about 400 top officials and announced he had uncovered a plot against the ruling party. The conspirators, he said, were in that very room. As the 42-year-old Saddam coolly puffed on a cigar, names of the supposed...




Literary Criticism
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Critical Essay by R. Stephen Humphreys
11,712 words, approx. 39 pages
 In the following essay, Humphreys analyzes the political structure under which Saladin operated and discusses the ways in which he adapted this structure and established his authority. Humphreys emphasizes the system of loyalties cultivated by Saladin, and observes that such a system could not be sustained after his death. But overall, the political system that was prevalent during Saladin's reign “gave his immediate successors a framework of attitudes and behavior within which to define thei...
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Critical Essay by The Quarterly Review
11,273 words, approx. 38 pages
 In the following essay, the anonymous critic briefly reviews several nineteenth-century Western histories of the Crusades. The critic observes a lack of a thorough, accurate “Mohammedan history” by a Western writer and demonstrates that such information is available through Arabic sources.
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Critical Essay by Andrew S. Ehrenkreutz
11,006 words, approx. 37 pages
 In the following essay, Ehrenkreutz offers an assessment of Saladin's career that focuses on his accomplishments as well as his shortcomings. Ehrenkreutz stresses that he does not, unlike many critics, conjecture about or romanticize Saladin's intentions.
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