Saladin and the fall of the Kingdom of Jerusalem

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 boo...