Morning Edition host Leila Fadel reports from Damascus, in the first week in a half-century that the Assad family did not rule the country.

📜 History of Saladin & the 3rd Crusade: A Crusade's End - Things look bleak for Saladin. Richard I had returned and the Lionheart can be seen right outside Jerusalem. Internally, his coalition ...

📜 History of Saladin & the 3rd Crusade: Horns of Hattin - Guy de Lusignan, King of Jerusalem. Raymond III, Count of Tripoli. And The Grandmaster of the Knights Templar. Before them, they carry ...

For almost three centuries (800-1100) Arab civilization, the most advanced of the time (barring China), had considered itself virtually impregnable. Europeans had to learn Arabic to acquire the ...

The legend of Saladin as an ideal Quranic leader who fought back invaders remains a potent symbol in the Islamic world’s public memory.

The head of the Iron Banner returns to Destiny 2 each month, so knowing where to find Lord Saladin is a top priority.

The German leader, Kaiser Wilhelm II, ordered a wreath laid at Saladin’s tomb in Damascus. Egypt’s Gamal Abdel Nasser used some of Saladin’s symbology in his pan-Arab campaign.

The Legendary Sultan Saladin Was Likely Killed by Typhoid Reviewing historical accounts of his death, doctors and historians believe his sweating fits and weakness were brought on by the bacterial ...

Some researchers say Saladin most likely bestowed the guardianship upon the two families in order to assert Muslim dominance over Christianity in the city.

The Life and Legend of the Sultan Saladin. By Jonathan Phillips. Yale University Press; 520 pages; $32.50. Bodley Head; £25. T HE WEST has few Muslim heroes but, astonishingly, a 12th-century ...