ABSTRACT
Saladin’s illness and death, shortly after the truce with the Franks, are described in the most minute detail by the faithful Bahā’ ad-Din. Disregarding a certain pettiness and pedantry common to n early all these Muslim sources, his account reveals a sincere devotion to its hero, and recognition that he was an exceptional person who won the regard of both East and West. His pious end, and the complete attachment to the spirit and letter of his Faith that marked Saladin’s real life, banish Lessing’s fantasies of the liberal and enlightened ruler.
