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 northern Iraq grew tp power in Egypt, founding a huge empire that reached from western Iraq to north Africa. At the height of his power, in 1187, he captured Jerusalem from the Crusaders, returning it to Islamic rule. Saladin was a complex character, who combined extraordinary powers of leadership with streaks of both justice and cruelty.
The Times described the book as ‘Superbly researched and enormously entertaining … one of the outstanding books of the year’.
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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.
