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Lyons and Jackson publish Saladin: The Politics of the Holy War as a critical modern biography

In 1982 Malcolm Lyons and D. E. P. Jackson issued a critical political biography that treated jihad, family, and cash as machinery rather than as Scott’s manners. Critical biography is a knowledge gain against romance. 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 1982 Malcolm Lyons and D. E. P. Jackson issued a critical political biography that treated jihad, family, and cash as machinery rather than as Scott’s manners. It is not a primary chronicle.

Context

Critical biography is a knowledge gain against romance. It can still err.

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

A Cambridge book is not a citadel stone. Keep the date.

A Cambridge book is not a citadel stone. Keep the date.

Who was responsible

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

  • Saladin

    Person

    Direct responsibility

    responsibility level 0.24 · verified

    Sultan and court, later chroniclers, restorers, or nationalist users. Complex, not a sole autograph of 1187.

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.Lyons and Jackson, Saladin: The Politics of the Holy War (Cambridge tradition)Cambridge University Press · High credibility · verified
  2. 2.SOAS University of London — Near and Middle East studiesSOAS · High credibility · verified
What the sources establish

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 toFactLyons and Jackson publish Saladin: The Politics of the Holy War as a critical modern biography
  3. strengthensDriverDigital Learning Access
  4. weakensIndicatorLearning Poverty Rate (low- and middle-income countries)

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Factrail. (2026). Lyons and Jackson publish Saladin: The Politics of the Holy War as a critical modern biography. Factrail. https://factrail.ai/facts/sa-lyons-jackson-1982

https://factrail.ai/facts/sa-lyons-jackson-1982

Accessed 16 October 2026.

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