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Stanley Lane-Poole publishes Saladin and the Fall of the Kingdom of Jerusalem

In 1898 Stanley Lane-Poole issued Saladin and the Fall of the Kingdom of Jerusalem, which became a standard English Life. 1898 is also the year Wilhelm II ostentatiously visited Damascus and the tomb. In the causal graph this event strengthens Digital Learning Access, a driver that weakens Learning Poverty Rate (low- and middle-income countries) — an improving welfare path.

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In 1898 Stanley Lane-Poole issued Saladin and the Fall of the Kingdom of Jerusalem, which became a standard English Life.

Context

1898 is also the year Wilhelm II ostentatiously visited Damascus and the tomb.

Saladin is not the sole author of every later object, law, or museum label that uses the name. Shared work with courts, excavators, printers, spouses, officials, and later states does not erase a documented role, and it does not make an ancient person the signer of a twentieth-century statute.

Why it matters

Knowledge-access path with a known orientalising frame. High confidence on 1898.

A Victorian Life is not Ibn Shaddad. Keep the date on the book.

Who was responsible

Contribution type and responsibility level for each recorded actor — not sole-author shorthand.

  • Saladin

    Person

    Direct responsibility

    responsibility level 0.15 · verified

    The campaigns are twelfth-century. The English standard biography of 1898 is Lane-Poole’s.

What changed

Fact → Driver → Indicator. Relationship strength orders the paths; it is not the observed indicator movement.

Evidence

The sources behind this fact and its verification state.

Verified2 sources on file
  1. 1.BBC History — SaladinBBC · High credibility · verified
  2. 2.Stanley Lane-Poole, Saladin and the Fall of the Kingdom of Jerusalem (1898 scan)Internet Archive / 1898 monograph · High credibility · verified
What the sources establish

Internet Archive holds the 1898 scan. BBC History independently summarises the received career Lane-Poole helped to fix in English.

Established: Lane-Poole’s book appeared in 1898. Not established: that it is a primary chronicle.

Later competitions, monuments, translations, UNESCO listings, and museums are not converted into extra lifetime acts. That reading is an impact-path choice, not a property stored on the Fact itself. Confidence is stated on the impact path. A later English edition is not a recovered autograph. If a number is not in the two records named above, it is not supplied here. Confidence is stated on the impact path.

Causal path

How this event connects to drivers and indicators in the graph.

  1. ActorSaladin
  2. contributed toFactStanley Lane-Poole publishes Saladin and the Fall of the Kingdom of Jerusalem
  3. strengthensDriverDigital Learning Access
  4. weakensIndicatorLearning Poverty Rate (low- and middle-income countries)

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Factrail. (2026). Stanley Lane-Poole publishes Saladin and the Fall of the Kingdom of Jerusalem. Factrail. https://factrail.ai/facts/sa-lane-poole-1898

https://factrail.ai/facts/sa-lane-poole-1898

Accessed 16 October 2026.

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