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Among the best-known Muslim leaders, Saladin is arguably in the very first place.
Evolving in an epic context (that of the Crusades), winning victories that marked history (Hattîn and Jerusalem in 1187), everyone knows Saladin.
Even more, a majority of people respect him.
But the most interesting thing is that this deference, even this admiration for Saladin does not date from the famous film Kingdom of Heaven…
They are the result of a tradition of more than 8 centuries!
Even more surprising, it was first in the West that his name was glorified...
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Chaptering:
00:00: Introduction
01:59: Opera partnership
03:27: The image of Saladin in the medieval West
09:30: The Saladin “problem” in the medieval Muslim East
12:47: Saladin's fame in the West grows
16:17: Saladin, the Arab-Muslim world champion (19th-20th centuries)
27:38: Final words
📚 Bibliographie :
Ouvrages :
Anne-Marie Eddé, Saladin, Paris, Flammarion, 2011.
Daniel O’Brien, Muslim Heroes on Screen, Palgrave Macmillan, 2021.
Jonathan Phillips, The Life and Legend of the Sultan Saladin, New Haven et Londre, Yale University Press, 2019.
Articles/chapitres de livres :
Abbès Zouache, « Saladin, l’histoire, la légende », Denise Aigle (dir.), Le Bilād al-Šām face aux mondes extérieurs : La perception de l’Autre et la représentation du souverain, Damas-Beyrouth, Presses de l’Ifpo, 2012, p. 41-72.
Carole Hillenbrand, « The Evolution of the Saladin Legend in the West », Mélanges Louis Pouzet, Beyrouth, 2006, p. 1-13.
Denise Aigle, « Figures mythiques et histoire. Réinterprétations et contrastes entre Orient et Occident », Revue des mondes musulmans et de la Méditerranée, 89-90, 2000, p. 39-71.
Emma Aubin-Boltanski, « Salāh al-Dīn, un héros à l'épreuve. Mythe et pèlerinage en Palestine », Annales. Histoire, Sciences Sociales, vol. 60, no. 1, 2005, p. 91-107.
Jean Richard, « Les transformations de l'image de Saladin dans les sources occidentales », Revue des mondes musulmans et de la Méditerranée, 89-90, 2000, p. 177 187.
John Victor Tolan, « Chapitre I : Mirror of Chivalry : Salah al-Din in the Medieval European Imagination », David Blanks (dir.), Images of the Other : Europe and the Muslim World Before 1700, le Caire, American University in Cairo Press, 1996, p. 7-38.
Luc-Willy Deheuvels, « Le Saladin de Farah Antūn du mythe littéraire arabe au mythe politique », Revue des mondes musulmans et de la Méditerranée, 89-90, 2000, p. 189-203.
Robert Irwin, « Saladin and the Third Crusade: A Case Study in Historiography and the Historical Novel », Michael Bentley (dir.), Companion to Historiography, Londres et New York, Routledge, 2006, p. 130-142.
🎶 Music 🎶
Original music by Hassan Ali (whom I warmly thank for his help!)
Adrian von Ziegler
Ancient Arabian Music
Relaxing Arabian Music
Stronghold Crusader Soundtrack
Mount and Blade Bannerlord
Nikolai Nazarov - Amur Waves
Cody Martin - Lark
Count Down - Third Age
Generic Oud
🎥 Videos used in the episode:
Kingdom of Heaven movie
The Kingdoms of Fire series (2019)
Genghis Khan, the empire of the steppes, Landmarks - ARTE (January 3, 2023)
Daily Life in Egypt, Ancient and Modern, 1925 – From the Vaults (TheMet)
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