Saladin

Saladin represents the best kind of biography¿a portrait of a man who is said to have made an age, and the most complete account we have to date of an age that made the man. The result is a unique view of the Crusades from an Arab perspective, and an erudite biography of a political figure whose image was layered in myth with the passage of time.

About the author

Anne-Marie Eddé is Director of Research at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Paris, and was Professor of Medieval History at the University of Reims.

Summary

Saladin represents the best kind of biography—a portrait of a man who is said to have made an age, and the most complete account we have to date of an age that made the man. The result is a unique view of the Crusades from an Arab perspective, and an erudite biography of a political figure whose image was layered in myth with the passage of time.

Product details

• Authors: Anne-Marie Edde, Anne-Marie Eddé
• Assisted by: Jane Marie Todd (Translation)
• Publisher: Belknap press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 22.05.2014
• EAN: 9780674283978
• ISBN: 978-0-674-28397-8
• Dimensions: 164 mm x 238 mm x 38 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Biographies, autobiographies; Islam, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Historical, Biography: general, HISTORY / Middle East / General, RELIGION / Islam / General, HISTORY / Historiography, Middle East, Islamic Studies, Historiography, Middle Eastern history, Biography: historical, political and military