The first English-language biography ever written of Saladin, the Sultan of Egypt and Syria, who captured Jerusalem from the Crusaders in 1187 as depicted (with many inaccuracies) in the film Kingdom of Heaven. About half this book is dedicated to his campaigns in Palestine and The Kingdom of Jerusalem, including Tyre and Jaffa.
Contents include:
Saladin’s World
The First Crusade, 1098
The Harbinger, 1127
The Fall of Edessa, 1127-1144
Egypt
Empire
The Holy War
Richard and Saladin
About the author (from Wikipedia):
Stanley Edward Lane-Poole (18 December 1854 – 29 December 1931) was a British orientalist and archaeologist. Poole was from a famous orientalist family as his mother Sophia Lane Poole, brother Reginald Stuart Poole and uncle Edward William Lane were famous for their work in this field.
Born in London, England, from 1874 to 1892 he worked in the British Museum, and after that in Egypt researching on Egyptian archaeology. From 1897 to 1904 he had a chair as Professor of Arabic studies at Dublin University.