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D. S. Richards publishes an English Baha al-Din Ibn Shaddad as a public Saladin vita

In 2001 D. S. Richards issued The Rare and Excellent History of Saladin, an English Baha al-Din Ibn Shaddad, the sultan’s contemporary qadi. It is not a 1193 autograph diary and not a finding that every battle number is forensic. 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 2001 D. S. Richards issued The Rare and Excellent History of Saladin, an English Baha al-Din Ibn Shaddad, the sultan’s contemporary qadi. It is not a 1193 autograph diary and not a finding that every battle number is forensic.

S. Richards publishes an English Baha al-Din Ibn Shaddad as a public Saladin vita (2001-01-01).

Context

Ibn Shaddad wrote as a servant. Crusade Latin writers wrote as enemies or neighbours. Modern English makes both usable. Panegyric remains panegyric.

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. High confidence on the 2001 book.

A court vita is a source. It is not a World Heritage file and not a 20th-century statue.

Who was responsible

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

  • Saladin

    Person

    Direct responsibility

    responsibility level 0.2 · verified

    The court vita is Ayyubid. The English public edition is Richards’s and the crusade-texts editors’.

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.Britannica — SaladinEncyclopaedia Britannica · High credibility · verified
  2. 2.D. S. Richards trans. — Baha al-Din Ibn Shaddad, The Rare and Excellent History of SaladinRoutledge / Ashgate crusade texts · High credibility · verified
What the sources establish

The Routledge/Ashgate volume is the official modern edition used here. Britannica independently treats Ibn Shaddad as a principal Arabic source.

Established: Richards published the English Ibn Shaddad in 2001. Not established: that the qadi’s numbers are a body-count.

D. S. Richards publishes an English Baha al-Din Ibn Shaddad as a public Saladin vita (2001-01-01). 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.

Causal path

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

  1. ActorSaladin
  2. contributed toFactD. S. Richards publishes an English Baha al-Din Ibn Shaddad as a public Saladin vita
  3. strengthensDriverDigital Learning Access
  4. weakensIndicatorLearning Poverty Rate (low- and middle-income countries)

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Factrail. (2026). D. S. Richards publishes an English Baha al-Din Ibn Shaddad as a public Saladin vita. Factrail. https://factrail.ai/facts/sa-richards-ibn-shaddad-2001

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Accessed 16 October 2026.

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