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Year 1178 was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar, the 1178th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 178th year of the 2nd millennium, the 78th year of the 12th century, and the 9th year of the 1170s decade.
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Saladin was born in 1138 into a Kurdish family in Tikrit and was sent to Damascus to finish his education. His father, Najm ad-Din Ayyub, was governor of Baalbek. For ten years Saladin lived in Damascus and studied SunniTheology, at the court of the Syrian ruler Nur ad-Din (Nureddin). He received an initial military education under the command of h...
On two occasions, in 1171 and 1173, Saladin retreated from an invasion of the Kingdom of Jerusalem. These had been launched by Nur ad-Din, technically Saladin's commander. Saladin apparently hoped that the Crusader kingdom would remain intact as a buffer state between Egypt and Syria, until he could gain control of Syria as well. Nur ad-Din and Sal...
Saladin is buried in a mausoleum in the garden outside the Umayyad Mosque in Damascus, Syria, and is a popular attraction. Emperor Wilhelm II of Germany donated a new marble sarcophagusto the mausoleum. Saladin was, however, not placed in it. Instead the mausoleum now has two sarcophagi: one empty in marble and one in wood containing the body of Sa...
Despite his fierce struggle to the Christian incursion, Saladin achieved a great reputation in Europe as a chivalrous knight, so much so that there existed by the fourteenth century an epic poem about his exploits, and Dante included him among the virtuous pagan souls in Limbo. The noble Saladin appears in a sympathetic light in Sir Walter Scott's ...
ad-Din, Baha (ed.), and D. S. Richards. The Rare and Excellent History of Saladin. Ashgate, 2002. ISBN 978-0754633815Bowman, Alan K. Egypt After the Pharaohs: 332 B.C.E.-AD 642: From Alexander to the Arab Conquest. University of California Press; New Ed edition, 1996.Gibb, H. A. R. The Life of Saladin: From the Works of Imad ad-Din and Baha ad-Din. Clarendon Press, 1973. ISBN 978-0863569289Gillingham, John. Richard I, Yale English Monarchs. Yale University Press, 1999. ISBN 978-0300079128All links retrieved December 22, 2022. 1. Richard and Saladin: Warriors of the Third Crusade www.shadowedrealm.com
April 10 – A Crusader army led by King Baldwin IV ( the Leper) is ambushed by Muslim forces in a narrow valley in the forest of Banyas. Baldwin is only able to extricate his forces owing to the heroism of Humphrey II, lord of Toron, who holds up the Muslims with his bodyguard till Baldwin and his army escape.
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