The Kurdish sultan who united Egypt and Syria, retook Jerusalem in 1187, and won the lasting respect of his Crusader enemies for his mercy and chivalry.
The West made him its favorite noble enemy — Dante placed him among the virtuous, Richard the Lionheart traded gifts with him. But the chivalrous sultan was a relentless holy-war strategist who spent his life in the saddle and died nearly penniless, having given his fortune away. The legend of mercy was also a weapon.
“The enemy you spare tells your story better than the enemy you kill.”
✉️ Ships with a letter from Saladin — what he stood for, in his own words.
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