![]() ![]() A subplot involves the adventures, erotic and philosophical, of two of his fictional wives, again in the form of stories told to the scribe. Most scenes involve meetings between the scribe and Salah al-Din or those close to him for the purpose of recording the facts of his reign as Sultan and his plan to retake Jerusalem. ![]() ![]() The narrator is a fictional Jewish scribe from Cairo. Rather, it explores the philosophy and personality of Salah al-Din as imagined by British-Pakistani historian and author Tariq Ali. Nor, having been published in 1998, does it make a post-9/11 case for better understanding Islam. It explores the life of the Kurdish Muslim warrior Salah al-Din (westernized as Saladin) who retook Jerusalem from the Crusaders in 1187. The literary style of The Book of Saladin is a blend of biographical novel, aphorism, and storytelling à la The Thousand and One Nights. ![]()
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