Sultan Al-Nasir Saladin remains an icon of the West before the East. His morals were behind his weapons, and thus his weapons themselves had morals! He became a king, and his pardon was a kind of kindness, and he treated the prisoners with kindness and forgiveness. Perhaps the greatest thing that has been written about him is what the scholar Stanley Lane Paul put together in the pages of this book. He traced his career starting from the cradle in Tikrit, through childhood and adolescence in Baalbek and Damascus, then joining the service of the just King Nour al-Din Mahmoud in Damascus, then his introduction to Egypt with his uncle Asad al-Din Shirkuh, then his ministry to al-Adid al-'Ubb My hand in Cairo, his sultanate and his two magnificent victories over the Zengids in the Quran of Hama and Tal al-Sultan, and his unification The Levant - especially Aleppo - and the Euphrates Peninsula, his great victory demonstrated at Hattin, his conquest of the city of Jerusalem and his elimination of the Frankish Kingdom of Jerusalem, then his confrontation of the Third Crusade and his peace with King Richard I, ending with his death in Damascus. Then he turned his pen to refuting Western myths about the biography of Saladin, and removing the illusions and confusion that were attached to them. It is a book like a moving garden, which takes you around Salah al-Din's lush pastures and takes you on its fragrant paths. (Translator)