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13 Guy and Sibylla: road to Hattin, crowning and spy in Sepulchre: Continuation 25–9; Reynauld, torture of Mecca caravan: Continuation 25–6. Ibn Shaddad, The Rare and Excellent History of Saladin (henceforth Shaddad) 37. For sympathetic analysis of Guy: R. C. Smail, ‘The Predicaments of Guy of Lusignan’, in Kedar, Mayer and Smail (eds), Outremer 159–76. Tyerman 356–65. Runciman 2.437–50. Coronation: Kedar, Outremer 190–9. M. C. Lyons and D. E. P. Jackson, Saladin: Politics of Holy War (henceforth Saladin) 246–8. Massacre of Templars and political unity: Continuation 32–5. Hattin/killing of Reynald: Continuation 37–9, 45–8. Cresson and invasion: Shaddad 60–3. For Raymond’s role see M. W. Baldwin, Raymond III of Tripoli and the Fall of Jerusalem.

14 Saladin and Hattin: Shaddad 37–8. Continuation, 36–9 and 45–8. Battle, Reynald: Shaddad 73–5. Al-Athir: Gabrieli 119–25; Imad al-Din (army, battlefield, killing of Reynald, True Cross, killing Templars): Gabrieli 125. B. Z. Kedar (ed.), The Horns of Hattin 190–207. N. Housley, ‘Saladin’s Triumph over the Crusader States: The Battle of Hattin, 1187’, History Today 37 (1987). Promise to kill Reynald: Saladin 246–8; the battle 252–65. Runciman 2.453–60. Tyerman 350–72. Saladin splits infantry from knights: Housley, Fighting for the Cross 124–6.

15 Saladin takes Jerusalem: Shaddad 77–8; Shaddad joins service of Saladin 80; visits to Jerusalem for festivals 89. Continuation 55–67. Al-Athir quoted in Gabrieli 139–46; Imad al-Din 146–63 (women). Saladin 271–7; campaign after Jerusalem 279–94. Runciman 2.461–8. Fall of the city: Michael Hamilton Burgoyne, ‘1187–1260: The Furthest Mosque (al-Masjid al-Aqsa) under Ayyubid Rule’, in Sacred Esplanade 151–75.

16 Saladin, character, career, family, court: this is based on the primary sources Ibn Shaddad and Imad al-Din; on Lyons and Jackson, Saladin; and R. Stephen Humphreys, From Saladin to the Mongols: The Ayyubids of Damascus 1193–1260. Shaddad: early life 18; beliefs and character 18; modesty, old man, crises with Taki al-Din, justice 23–4; lack of interest in money 25; illness 27, 29; jihad 28–9; crucifixion of Islamic heretic 20; visits to Jerusalem 28; sadness over Taki 32; court life, asceticism 33; fill of worldly pleasures 224; mud on clothes 34; geniality like Prophet holding hands until released 35; Frankish baby 36; rise to power 41–53; favourite son 63; special advice to Zahir on ruling 235; crises and conflict with amirs and grandees 66; swap of Zahir and Safadin 70.

Youth in Damascus polo, Saladin 1–29; debauchery satire of Taki 118–20; challenges of Taki and sons 244–6; distribution of new conquests 279–94; war 364–74. Saladin’s style of ruling: Humphreys, Ayyubids 15–39. Saladin’s mistakes: al-Athir quoted in Gabrieli 180. As court physician to Saladin and Taki al-Din, sex life: Kraemer, Maimonides, doctor of Qadi al-Fadil and then Saladin 188–92; 197–201; Saladin’s 212 and 215; doctor of al-Afdal 446; Taki al-Din 446–8.

17 Saladin and Islamic Jerusalem. Ibn Shaddad in charge of Jerusalem, Salahiyya Shafii madrassa, appoints governors: Saladin 236–7. Imad al-Din: Gabrieli 164–75, including Taki al-Din and princes cleaning the Haram, opening up of Rock, robe for preacher, Citadel of David restored with mosques; convent for Sufis in patriarch house, Shafii madrassa in St Anne’s; Adil encamped in Church of Zion. Turkish military tactics: Housley, Fighting for the Cross 111–14; Saladin’s multinational army 228; Saladin’s image 229–32. Ayyubid architecture on the Haram: Burgoyne, ‘1187–1260: The Furthest Mosque (al-Masjid al-Aqsa) under Ayyubid Rule’, Sacred Esplanade 151–75. Saladin and Afdal’s buildings and changes: Hiyari in Asali, Jerusalem 169–72 and Donald P. Little, ‘Jerusalem under the Ayyubids and Mamluks’, in Asali, Jerusalem 177–83. Saladin’s madrassa, khanqah, Muristan/ Afdal’s Mosque of Omar: Bahat, Atlas 104–7. Qubbat al-Miraj – Dome of Ascension, either Crusader baptistery or built with Crusader spolia; Bab al-Silsila built with Crusader spolia: Burgoyne, Mamluk Jerusalem 47–8.

Armenian Jerusalem: Hintlian, History of the Armenians in the Holy Land 1–5; Muazzam pays for Armenian building 43.

Jewish return, Harizi: Prawer, History of the Jews in the Latin Kingdom 134 and 230. Saladin invitation and return: Yehuda al-Harizi quoted in Peters, Jerusalem 363–4. Prawer, Latin Kingdom 233–47.