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In 1187 Saladin recovered the holy city of Jerusalem for Islam; in subsequent years he fended off the armies of the Third Crusade before his death in 1193. Even though over 800 years have passed since his death the sultan continues to have a prominent profile in history, politics and culture. This paper is designed to give an overview of his career and to see which aspects of his life have been taken and moulded by people over the centuries and to explain his sustained and continued popularity in the Muslim world and in the West. Annotation: This text is a shortened version of the lecture presented at the Braunschweig conference in February 2011. Elements of it are based on sections from my book Holy Warriors: A Modern History of the Crusades (London, 2009), translated into German and published in October 2011 as Heiliger Kreig: Eine neue Geschichte der Kreuzzüge (Munich, 2011). A more detailed, research-based, version of the paper, exploring further some of the ideas outlined here will be published in 2013.
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European receptions of the crusades in the nineteenth century - Franco-German perspectives, Braunschweig : Georg-Eckert-Inst. für Internat. Schulbuchforschung, 2011, (2011)
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year:2011
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English
Keywords:
Saladin Aijubidenreich, Sultan 1137-1193
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Rezeption
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Geschichte 1137-2011
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Europa
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Kreuzzüge
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Geschichtsschreibung
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Islambild
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urn:nbn:de:0220-2011-0022-0067
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