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P.H. Newby has travelled most of the Saladin territory - from Tikrit in Iraq, where Saladin was born, to Damascus, where he died - and for some years lived in Cairo, where the most striking of Saladin's monuments remains.
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Seller: Better World Books: West, Reno, NV, U.S.A.
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Seller: Better World Books, Mishawaka, IN, U.S.A.
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Seller: Ann Becker, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
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Seller: Better World Books Ltd, Dunfermline, United Kingdom
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Cloth. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine (in mylar). Maps (illustrator). A beautiful, gift quality copy; Unclipped, spine-sunned dust jacket, lightly edge-rubbed; 210p., including bibliogrpahy and index. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hardcover. Seller Inventory # SB6820
Seller: Anybook.com, Lincoln, United Kingdom
Condition: Good. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In good all round condition. Dust jacket in good condition. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,450grams, ISBN:0571130445. Seller Inventory # 5594311
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210p., map, dj. Seller Inventory # 029540
Seller: James & Mary Laurie, Booksellers A.B.A.A, Minneapolis, MN, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: fine. 1st. Bound in the publisher's original cloth covered boards. Seller Inventory # 9025003
Seller: Dorley House Books, Inc., Hagerstown, MD, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st. 1st British printing; dj w/unclipped price; 210 clean, unmarked pages/index. Seller Inventory # 087646
Seller: Chris Fessler, Bookseller, Howell, MI, U.S.A.
brown hardcover 8vo. (octavo). dustwrapper in protective plastic book jacket cover. very fine cond. mint cond. looks new. like new. as new. binding square & tight. covers clean. edges clean. contents free of markings. dustwrapper in fine cond. not worn or torn or price clipped. nice clean copy. no library markings, store stamps, stickers, bookplates, no names, inking, underlining, remainder markings etc~. first edition. first printing (FPu1983 & NAP). 210p. b&w map. bibliography. index. medieval history. biography. history of islam. history of the crusades. ~ Saladin has been more generally admired in the Christian West than in the Moslem East, in spite of his achievements for Islam. This new study, which places him against the background of Islamic history, beliefs and culture, is based upon a sympathetic understanding of Moslem attitudes and gives a balanced view of a man who, even by his Moslem enemies and rivals, was regarded as remarkable. Jerusalem had fallen to the First Crusade in 1099. The Latin Kingdom, founded on Christmas Day of the following year, lasted until Saladin destroyed King Guy's army at the Horns of Hattin in 1187. Saladin's magnanimity at the surrender of Jerusalem and other cities won the reluctant respect of the defeated Christians. The Crusade that was now led against him by Philip of France and Richard I of England inflicted terrible reverses on the Moslems; yet despite faint~heartedness and even desertions among his supporters, Saladin held Jerusalem and negotiated an honourable peace. He became the West's favourite Moslem, a chivalrous figure of romance, honoured by writers from Dante to Sir Walter Scott and beyond. But many fellow Moslems saw him as a ruthlessly ambitious upstart who was exploiting the Holy War in order to establish his own power. The politics of the Moslem world, not the Crusaders, determined Saladin's career. P. H. Newby has travelled most of the Saladin territory~ from Tikrit in Iraq, where Saladin was born, to Damascus, where he died ~ and for some years lived in Cairo, where the most striking of Saladin's monuments remains. Seller Inventory # 12212102