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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Jean Richard
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Université de Provence 2000-07-01
Series:Revue des Mondes Musulmans et de la Méditerranée
Online Access:http://journals.openedition.org/remmm/279