SOURCE: “The Sources” in Saladin in Egypt, Constable London, 1976, pp. xii-xv.
In the following essay, Lev reviews the main contemporary sources for Saladin's biography and examines the influence of the contemporary politics (as well as the biographers' attitudes and perceptions) on the biographers' assessments of Saladin.
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