Les transformations de l'image de Saladin dans les sources occidentales
Salāh al-din Yūsuf, the Kurdish officer who served under Nūr al-din, who conquered Egypt and later Damascus and Aleppo, who founded the Ayyubide Empire, was quite a controversial character during his lifetime but posterity has consecrated him as « the purest among the heroes of Islam ». Very quickly...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Université de Provence
2000-07-01
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Series: | Revue des Mondes Musulmans et de la Méditerranée |
Online Access: | http://journals.openedition.org/remmm/279 |