Forty years before the boy was born, a horde of bloodthirsty barbarians thundered out of the west and conquered his native land. They had succeeded because his people, ever at war with one another, ha
This is the remarkable story of one of the masterpieces of Islamic art, the Minbar of Saladin. Made in the middle of the 12th century, this wooden pulpit, perhaps the finest ever seen, stood in the al
Saladin remains one of the most iconic figures of his age. As the man who united the Arabs and saved Islam from Christian crusaders in the 12th century, he is the Islamic world’s preeminent hero. Ruth
● 「尤素夫，你確定你想成為一名軍人嗎？」叔叔問道。尤素夫回答：「沒錯，叔叔，我會敬忠職守的！」● 尤素夫到阿勒坡向謝爾庫赫將軍學習武術時，沒人知道他以後會這麼有成就。● 數年後，尤素夫成了一名偉大且行俠仗義的將軍，他號召所有伊斯蘭親王前來圍攻耶路撒冷，成功從法蘭克人手裡搶回並收復聖城耶路撒冷，他就是赫赫有名的薩拉丁，而這是他的故事……●'Well, Yusuf, are you sure tha
Saladin is one of the best known figures of the Middle Ages, and this study makes use of hitherto neglected Arabic sources, including unpublished manuscript material - -notably the correspondence, both private and official, of Saladin's own court -to set the whole of Saladin's career and achievements, civil and military, within the specific framework of his age.
Examines the life of the very powerful and influential Muslim sultan, Saladin, who led his people in an attempt to regain holy lands in and around Jerusalem that had been lost during earlier Crusades.
Working simultaneously on two levels, 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 ma
With Saladin, students make connections through learning outcomes and assessments, integrated media, and a writing style that clearly depicts anatomy and physiology processes. A consistent set of chap
