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Saladin

Saladin

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Ayyubid sultan whose received career is the 1171 Sunni restoration in Cairo, Hattin and the 1187 Jerusalem terms, and a family empire that partitioned after 1193. The most recent verified record is “Ibn Shaddad’s translated vita presents the sultan as sitting with qadis, a court-centred justice image” (1 March 2001), linked to the driver Judicial Independence.

Sources: [1][2][3][4][5]+15

Ayyubid jihad and Sunni restoration as court policynegotiated urban surrender alongside execution of military-order captivesmodern Arab and Kurdish nationalist uses treated as reception not as a twelfth-century constitution

Impact

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Editorial assessment (context, not the score)

The dossier is not a chivalric novel and not a Ba‘thist ancestor poster. The heaviest documented costs in the received and later public record are lethal campaigning, intra-Muslim unification wars, sectarian regime change, captive finance, and a family partition. The offsets are negotiated urban terms as received, teaching endowments, and much later public knowledge and conservation of the citadel city.

He did not file a 1979 nomination or a 1952 eagle. Court panegyrists over-whitened him; crusade writers had other incentives; 1980s posters over-concreted him. Confidence is high on modern editions and listings, medium on chronicle numbers, low on any precise captive census.

Indicators affected

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Accountability & contradictions

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Responsibility

What could change this assessment

  • 4 linked facts have no assessed welfare direction yet.
  • Lifetime coverage has not been assessed: the record reflects stored facts only (1825–2001).

Causal path

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  1. PersonSaladin
  2. FactModern editors note that Ayyubid chancery files do not survive as a public data series
  3. DriverPersonal-Data Protection
  1. PersonSaladin
  2. FactModern translations of Ibn Shaddad make jihad rhetoric of the Ayyubid court publicly readable
  3. DriverPolitical Polarization
  1. PersonSaladin
  2. FactIbn Shaddad’s translated vita presents the sultan as sitting with qadis, a court-centred justice image
  3. DriverJudicial Independence

Timeline

The most relevant dated facts, newest first.

  1. 1 September 2001 · Personal-Data Protection

    Modern editors note that Ayyubid chancery files do not survive as a public data series

  2. 1 June 2001 · Political Polarization

    Modern translations of Ibn Shaddad make jihad rhetoric of the Ayyubid court publicly readable

  3. 1 March 2001 · Judicial Independence

    Ibn Shaddad’s translated vita presents the sultan as sitting with qadis, a court-centred justice image

  4. 1 January 2001 · Digital Learning Access

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

  5. 1 June 2000 · Institutional Corruption

    Cairo Citadel tourism captures modern rent from an Ayyubid labour landscape

  6. 1 January 2000 · Industrial-Policy Activism

    International conservation programmes take the Cairo Citadel as a historic-cities project

Evidence & methodology

How the record is sourced and how the score is derived.

30 of 30 linked facts verified, drawing on 20 distinct sources (1825–2001).

Sources include Routledge / Ashgate crusade texts, Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities, Egypt, World Monuments Fund, BBC, The Guardian, Cambridge University Press, UNESCO World Heritage Centre, Encyclopaedia Britannica.

Sources (showing 8 of 20)

  1. 1.D. S. Richards trans. — Baha al-Din Ibn Shaddad, The Rare and Excellent History of SaladinRoutledge / Ashgate crusade texts
  2. 2.Britannica — Ayyubid dynastyEncyclopaedia Britannica
  3. 3.Egypt Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities — Citadel of CairoMinistry of Tourism and Antiquities, Egypt
  4. 4.Britannica — Battle of HattinEncyclopaedia Britannica
  5. 5.Recueil des historiens des croisades — oriental historians (Gallica)Bibliothèque nationale de France / Académie des Inscriptions
  6. 6.World Monuments Fund — Citadel of Salah al-DinWorld Monuments Fund
  7. 7.BBC History — SaladinBBC
  8. 8.Guardian — Tikrit as Saladin’s birthplace in Saddam-era politicsThe Guardian

The score is formula-derived (Factrail formula v1, version 1.0.0), not an editorial verdict. Read the methodology.

By the Factrail desk · Method: how we source and score · Last reviewed · Sources: 20

Expert analysis

An excerpt; the full analysis opens on request.

The first fact about Saladin is a source limit. The richest Arabic narratives are courtly. The richest Latin narratives are crusade-sided. The richest objects still standing are palaces and walls restored by later states. A dossier that treats Ibn Shaddad as a photograph is naive. A dossier that treats the sultan as only a 1980s poster is evasive.

Hattin and the killing of Templar and Hospitaller captives; intra-Muslim wars to assemble the jihad coalition; ending the Fatimid caliphate; dhimmi fiscal limits; ransom-and-slavery as war finance; citadel labour; personalised justice; family partition after 1193; Scott’s romance; Wilhelm’s tomb theatre; Nasser’s eagle; Saddam’s Tikrit ancestor; Kurdish-versus-Arab statue fights. Those are dated as chronicles-in-later-editions or as modern uses.

The offsets are also dated: Jerusalem 1187 terms as received; Sunni madrasas; Richards and Lane-Poole and Lyons as public English; Recueil; UNESCO Historic Cairo and Damascus; citadel museum and WMF conservation. Those gains do not rebate the dead at Hattin. They are separate paths.

What the score must not say: that he is Nasser or Saddam; that Scott is a source; that UNESCO undid corvée; that courtesy deleted executions; that 1171 is a human-rights upgrade because Ismailis lost. Complex contribution is the honest type. Confidence is high on 1979–2001 conservation and translation, medium on chronicle numbers, low on any civil-registry inner life.

Related people are Shirkuh, Nur al-Din, al-Adil, Baha al-Din, Richard I, Balian, Lane-Poole as a modern writer, Nasser as a later user.

2001 is not 1187. 1979 is not 1176. A Recueil page is a nineteenth-century corpus. A citadel ticket is a twentieth-century economy. If those distinctions feel pedantic, they are the alternative to a statue and the alternative to a cartoon villain with a fake headcount.

What would change the picture: a surviving audited chancery series; a forensic mass-grave with an Ayyubid label; a measured tourism-rent series at object level. Until then the dossier refuses fake chivalry and refuses fake eternity. Keep Hattin, Jerusalem terms, the citadel listing, and Tikrit posters on separate dates.

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