Known in the West as a "noble heathen," the great Muslim sultan Saladin led Muslim forces in the reconquest of the Crusader kingdoms and captured Jerusalem in 1187. This concise history traces Saladin
A specialist in the Middle Ages and the Orient, Mohring (history, U. of Bayreuth) points out that Saladin is the best known medieval Muslim ruler in Europe, and he paradoxically enjoyed a very favorab
