Book One: The Dishonoured Wife: Legacy of Blood
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Saladin’s Legacy: Some Thoughts
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Elizabeth Wein has a YA series set in 6th-century Ethiopia; it actually starts off as an Arthurian series set in Britain, but in the second book one of the main white British characters goes to Aksum, and the three books that follow seem to center on a dark-skinned Aksumite boy who may have some white ancestry. The Aksumite Empire was pretty awesome, btw, and has been pretty thoroughly excluded from popular culture because IMO white people have trouble conceiving of a major African empire that was Christian centuries before Europe was.
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When Eleanor travels to his remote castle in the far west, however, her hopes for happiness are continually thwarted. Hating the Norman invaders, the Breton folk cling to pagan rituals and superstitions whilst scratching a bare living in a bleak and barren wilderness.
In popular modern film and literature, in both the east and the west, Saladin is depicted as a man of honor and reason, not swept up in the religious passions of his day, and thus a sort of modern role model for enlightened behavior in times of conflict. In this case, the thieves reportedly then sold the child in a slave market.
She did as they suggested and Saladin ordered that the child be found and returned to him. Indeed, his actions at that time, or at least the popular narrative about them, are probably the most important element in establishing his popular legacy.
After that Saladin captured many of the surrounding territories, resulting in a refugee crisis for the city of Jerusalem as thousands of Christians fled there seeking shelter. Saladin honored the agreement, and most of the inhabitants of the city would be spared their lives or enslavement. When Saladin died in , he had consolidated his rule and established the Ayyubid dynasty.
When these achievements were combined with his victories over Christian forces in the region, to include the conquest of Jerusalem, Saladin had emerged as a Muslim hero. Indeed, two biographies were written about him, a rarity for Muslim rulers at the time, and many other contemporary, or near contemporary, Muslim writers mentioned his exploits in their histories, making Saladin perhaps the best-known Muslim leader of the crusading era.
Saladin, his face joyful, was sitting on his dais; the unbelievers [Christian knights] showed black despair, the troops were drawn up in their ranks, the amirs stood in double file. Popular literature, such as the highly influential novels of Sir Walter Scott, effectively carried such views to the public during the nineteenth century, where they remain, and continue into the present as seen in modern television and film e. Get to Know Us. Maybe it was Esmeralda eyes syndrome… but I figured that since they were so inbred that members of the nobility would have random ass recessive traits. Even before Eleanor encounters her ruthless brother-in-law, she must battle with their resentment and fear. If Apple Books doesn't open, click the Books app in your Dock.
Although Saladin was celebrated for his role in the crusades in the twelfth and thirtieth centuries, soon his fame in the Arab world would diminish concurrently with the lapse of interest in the topic shown by Muslim writers from the late medieval to modern eras.
This process began with the threat the Mongols represented to the Muslim world in the thirteenth century, who were far more destructive than the crusaders.
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When the Mongols were overcome, the Turks then focused on a new era of successful expansion into Christian lands in Eastern Europe and the Mediterranean, achieving numerous victories and expanding their empire. Because of these events, the temporary and geographically limited Latin Christian settlements of the crusading era and the conflicts they provoked became less important in Muslim historical narratives.
The crusaders receded into a vast and now largely Ottoman dominated and defined past. With the diminished role of the crusading era in Islamic history came the diminished historical role of Saladin as a Muslim hero and military leader. The historical significance of the crusades was minimized as they were sandwiched between two periods of extraordinary Muslim expansion, to include the Arab Conquest of the seventh and eighth centuries and the continuation of steady Muslim expansion during the ninth through eleventh centuries, and the rise of the Turks and their expansion west into Europe in the late medieval and early modern periods.
Romanticized histories of the crusades that were written during and influenced by the era of the New Imperialism led to depictions of the early crusaders as early imperialists and the forerunners of the modern variety.
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Some of these histories, later translated into Arabic, Persian, and Turkish, also framed Saladin as a chivalrous sort of leader of the resistance to the crusader imperialists, making him something of a role model for later nineteenth and twentieth century Arab and Turkish leaders resisting European imperialism in their age. Harold Lamb, for example, described Saladin as brilliant and a man of honor, while Rene Grousset praised Saladin for resisting the fanaticism of some of his troops, who wanted to destroy the Church of the Holy Sepulcher, which he forbade.
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Popular literature, such as the highly influential novels of Sir Walter Scott, effectively carried such views to the public during the nineteenth century, where they remain, and continue into the present as seen in modern television and film e.