# Walter Scott publishes The Talisman, a romance that freezes a chivalric Saladin for Europe

Date: 1825

## The fact

In 1825 Scott’s Talisman gave English readers a courteous sultan opposite Richard. It is reception, not a chronicle, and it trained a polarising usable past later nationalists inverted.

## Context

Romance can reduce a lethal campaign to manners. It can also keep a Muslim ruler inside European letters. The worsening path stored here is myth-as-politics, not a finding that Scott caused 1980s Tikrit cult.

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.

## Evidence and sources

Official heritage, encyclopedia, or edition pages and an independent publisher independently describe this instrument.

Official or archival record: Walter Scott, The Talisman (Gutenberg) (https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/13726; Project Gutenberg).

## Significance

A Waverley novel is not Ibn Shaddad. Do not cite it as a 1187 source.

A Waverley novel is not Ibn Shaddad. Do not cite it as a 1187 source.

## What is established and what is not

Established as a dated public record of this instrument.

What would change the picture: a contradictory original with a different date or name, or a measured series that can be argued, with lag and alternatives, as a consequence of this instrument rather than of later institutions.

The date is the date of this instrument, not a licence to back-date every later harm or benefit.
Later competitions, monuments, translations, UNESCO listings, and museums are not converted into extra lifetime acts. The attached driver is [political-polarization](/drivers/political-polarization). The welfare reading used in this dossier is worsening. 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.

## People

- Saladin: https://factrail.ai/people/saladin

## Drivers

- Political Polarization: https://factrail.ai/drivers/political-polarization

## Sources

- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/13726
- https://archive.org/details/saladinandfallk00lanegoog

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/sa-scott-talisman-1825