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Article: L'Orient de Saladin. (Mosaic).(Statistical Data Included)
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- The Middle East
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- January 1, 2002
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Saladin -- the 12th century Sultan of Egypt and Syria -- is credited as being the man who "drove" the Christians, i.e. the Franks, out of Jerusalem, which fell before the onslaught of his troops on 2 October 1187, and brought an end to western dreams of domination of the Holy Land, during the Third Crusade.
An exhibition currently being staged at the Paris Institut du Monde Arabe (IMA) celebrates the life of this extraordinary man and his achievements. A ferocious warrior, Saladin proved humane in his treatment of captives, once Jerusalem had fallen. Rather than follow the example of western forces, who massacred the inhabitants of Jerusalem when they entered the ...