Saladin
The Sultan Who Vanquished the Crusaders and Built an Islamic Empire

3.5 stars actually, this was a nice biography of Saladin and focuses mostly in his interaction during the Crusades, while this is an aspect that I loved , I wish the book would have focused a little bit more in his way of government, his life after the crusades . While this book tries to explain som......more

Good book. I love how it tells the story from the Islamic point of view, not the Western European one. You get a whole new feeling for the Crusades. The author, John Man, states on the first page that the Europeans are the bad guys in this story, they murdered, pillaged, destroyed. Saladin is the go......more

Before I began reading this book, I made a stereotyped, prejudiced assumption of what it would be like, based on the author and his background. I judged a book by its cover, and unfortunately, I was right. I certainly enjoyed the act of reading this book, but that doesn't make it a good, balanced pie......more

Sebuah buku yang menceritakan tentang salah seorang tokoh agung di dalam sejarah Islam semasa perang salib. Nama sebenar beliau ialah Yusuf ibn Ayub. Salahuddin (Salah Al-Din) adalah nama yang diberikan oleh pengikut beliau yang membawa maksud “Kebaikan Agama”. Salahuddin adalah merupakan tokoh pemi......more

I hate negative reviews but this book went nowhere far too quickly and as a text that was supposed to be a biography of Saladin, a majority of the text was largely about the figures around Saladin. Man has limited knowledge of Arabic, not to mention poorly executes several of the names. There's next......more