Download or read book Saladin written by Dr. ʻAbd al-Raḥmān ʻAzzām and published by Longman Publishing Group. This book was released on 2009 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Saladin is the greatest hero of the Middle East, a legendary figure admired and revered to this day. This is the first serious biographyin over 20 years and the first ever by a non-western scholar in English. It shows that Saladin's genius was not in warfare but in giving the people of Middle East a spiritual vision.