THE LIFE OF SALADIN

AD 1138-1193

AND THE FALL OF THE KINGDOM OF JERUSALEM

By

Stanley Lane-Poole

PART I. INTRODUCTORY

CHAPTER I.

SALADIN’S WORLD.

CHAPTER II.

THE FIRST CRUSADE.

1098.

CHAPTER III.

THE HARBINGER.

1127.

PART II. EGYPT.

1138-1174.

CHAPTER IV.

THE FALL OF EDESSA.

1127-1144.

CHAPTER V.

Saladin's youth.

1138-1164.

CHAPTER VI

THE CONQUEST OF EGYPT.

1164-1169.

CHAPTER VII.

VIZIER OF EGYPT.

1169-1171.

CHAPTER VIII.

SALADIN AT CAIRO.

1171-1173

PART III. EMPIRE.

1174-1186.

CHAPTER IX.

THE CONQUEST OF SIRIA.

1174-1176.

CHAPTER X.

TRUCES AND TREATIES.

1176-1181.

CHAPTER XI.

THE CONQUEST OF MESOPOTAMIA.

1181-1183.

PART IV. THE HOLY WAR.

1187-1191

CHAPTER XII.

  DAMASCUS.

1183-1186.

CHAPTER XIII.

THE BATTLE OF HITTIN.

1187.

CHAPTER XIV.

JERUSALEM REGAINED.

1187.

CHAPTER XV.

THE RALLY AT TYRE.

1187-1188.

CHAPTER XVI.

THE BATTLE OF ACRE.

1189.

PART V. RICHARD AND SALADIN.

1191-2.

CHAPTER XVII.

THE SIEGE OF ACRE.

1189-91.

  CHAPTER XVIII

THE LOSS OF ACRE.

1191.

CHAPTER XIX.

THE COAST MARCH.

Aug. — Sept., 1191

CHAPTER XX.

IN SIGHT OF JERUSALEM.

Sept., 1191 — July, 1192.

CHAPTER XXI

THE LAST FIGHT AT JAFFA.

1192.

CHAPTER XXII.

AT REST.

1192-1193.

CHAPTER XXIII

SALADIN IN ROMANCE.