Saladin: Hero of Islam
Book Review
By Margaret Brown, published 4th August 2010
Saladin: Hero of Islam by Geoffrey Hindley
(Pen & Sword), 2010
208pp., £12.99 paper, ISBN 1-84884203-1
Originally published in 1976 and republished thirty years later with additions to the bibliography to bring it up-to-date, this is a highly serviceable study of Saladin, the most effective of the Islamic leaders to oppose the Crusades in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. This is a well-written and very accessible account of his life and achievements.