The extraordinary character and career of Saladin are the keys to understanding the Battle of Hattin, the fall of Jerusalem and the failure of the Third Crusade. He united warring Muslim lands, reconquered the bulk of Crusader states and faced the Richard the Lion Heart, king of England, in one of the most famous confrontations in medieval warfare. Geoffrey Hindley's sympathetic and highly readable study of the life and times of this remarkable, many-sided man, who dominated the Middle East in his day, gives a fascinating insight into his achievements and into the Muslim world of his contemporaries.
Chapter 2. Across the Battle Lines
Chapter 3. The Quadrilateral of Power
Chapter 4. Nur-ad-Din and the Propaganda of the Jihad
Chapter 5. The Family of Aiyub
Chapter 8. Triumph in the North
Chapter 11. The Threat from the North
Chapter 12. Acre, the City for which the World Contended
Chapter 13. Saracens and Crusader
Chapter 14. The Death of a Hero