Vida y leyenda del sultán Saladino

1187. For the first time in nearly a hundred years, Jerusalem has fallen into Muslim hands, a historic event that marks the culmination of the fascinating life of Sultan Saladin. Equally admired and abhorred, his capture of the Holy City shocked European Christendom and the Middle East. Saladin's life was full of adventures, challenges and contradictions, but throughout it fortune smiled upon him. From his birth and his coming to power in Egypt, this tireless warrior and diplomat fought for jihad while building a vast empire that stretched from North Africa to Iraq; and, at the head of a turbulent coalition, he lit the flame of the Third Crusade, where he starred in a legendary confrontation with his greatest adversary: ??Ricardo Corazón de León. Drawing from Arab and European sources, Jonathan Phillips, a specialist in the crusades, offers a vivid and intimate portrait of the man and the legend behind the Sultan, a staunch defender of the faith generous and just, but also human, capable of cruelty. terrible and making mistakes, and discusses how his legend has been manipulated from the Middle Ages to the present day to serve various purposes. This is the definitive biography of one of the greatest leaders in history.