Jonathan Phillips.
jonathan phillips
the life and legend of the sultan saladin (2019)
Winner of the Hatchards & Biographers’ Club First Biography Prize.
Saladin, born to a Kurdish family in Iraq, grew to power in Egypt, founding an empire that reached from western Iraq to north Africa. in 1187 he captured Jerusalem from the Crusaders, returning it to Islamic rule.
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Jonathan Phillips is Professor of Crusading History at the Royal Holloway, University of London. He took his degree at Royal Holloway, and his PhD at the University of London. After teaching a the Universities of Southampton and York he returned to Royal Holloway to take up his present post.
