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The Book of Saladin

كتاب صلاح الدين

Tariq Ali's Saladin novel narrated by an imagined Jewish-Muslim scribe — second of his 'Islam Quintet'.

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199020002010

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موجز

رواية طارق علي (1998م)؛ يهودي من القاهرة يتذكر صلاح الدين الأيوبي يومَ استرداد القدس، حاكمًا لا أسطورة: ضعفه وسخاؤه وسياساته. 1

الأثر

أول رواية في سلسلة علي «الخماسية الإسلامية»؛ قدّمت صلاح الدين للقارئ الغربي كسياسي بشري لا بطل خرافي. 1

People and things also explored

al-Tanahmir: the Himyaritic speech remnant· Arab naming of children after plants· Al-Adil takes Jaffa and the Franks take Beirut (593 AH)· غزوة ملك الألمان وغرقه· The battle of the Ford of Sorrows (Jacob's Ford, 575 AH)· وقعة حطين· The capture of Shaqif Habs Jaldak (Beaufort, 578 AH)· The assassination of the Marquis of Tyre (588 AH)

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al-Tanahmir: the Himyaritic speech remnant

Al-Hamdani's register of the peninsula's tongues records that the highland Himyar and Ja'da keep 'something of tanahmir' — Himyaritic speech — eliding consonants: 'bi-bn Ma'am' for 'bi-bn al-'amm', 'simmi'' for 'isma''. He counts Kinda and Hamdan the most eloquent of the south, says Mahra's speech resembles the 'ajam's, and names Nahj, Abyan and Dathina the purest — the earliest detailed witness to Old Himyaritic surviving on fourth-century tongues.