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Your thoughts on Ṣalāḥ ad-Dīn Yūsuf ibn Ayyūb (Saladin) ?

Salahuddin is a Hero of the Muslim World who commands a lot of love & respect of Muslims everywhere !

Just recently saw the movie "Kingdom of Heaven" this afternoon, and the character of Saladin caught my eye and attention.
The ending part when he enters Jerusalem and picks up a fallen Crucifix and places it back on the Church Altar got me goosebumps!

Was it safe to say he was a fair ruler? Did he treat Jews, Christians and Muslims equally?
 
i don't know much of this fellow...but came to know abt him.frim the movie the " kingdom of heaven" . he seems to be a wise man with noble character...
 
Just recently saw the movie "Kingdom of Heaven" this afternoon, and the character of Saladin caught my eye and attention.
The ending part when he enters Jerusalem and picks up a fallen Crucifix and places it back on the Church Altar got me goosebumps!

Was it safe to say he was a fair ruler? Did he treat Jews, Christians and Muslims equally?

The movie Kingdom of Heaven is replete with historical inaccuracies - Balian of Ebelin was a ruthless murderer not the righteous man they portray him to be.....he slaughtered all Muslims within the walls of Jerusalem !

Saladin was, in many ways, a reflection of our Caliphs of Old - who was just & fair to his subjects & to his enemies !

And Muslims, Jews & Christians were not treated equally in those times by anyone - Equality of this nature is a very recent thing but as a King he was fair to all of them !
 
The movie Kingdom of Heaven is replete with historical inaccuracies - Balian of Ebelin was a ruthless murderer not the righteous man they portray him to be.....he slaughtered all Muslims within the walls of Jerusalem !

Saladin was, in many ways, a reflection of our Caliphs of Old - who was just & fair to his subjects & to his enemies !

And Muslims, Jews & Christians were not treated equally in those times by anyone - Equality of this nature is a very recent thing but as a King he was fair to all of them !

Thank you @Armstrong , i knew that there would always be some inaccuracies in hollywood movies. It was very interesting to see siege warefare implemented by his forces. Was it historically accurate in the portrayal of siege warfare?
 
Thank you @Armstrong , i knew that there would always be some inaccuracies in hollywood movies. It was very interesting to see siege warefare implemented by his forces. Was it historically accurate in the portrayal of siege warfare?

I'm not a military historian so I wouldn't know but @AUSTERLITZ is probably the best person to talk about that ! :)
 
Initially he wasn't as good in character and did the same mistakes which were common for rulers at that time, i.e. abuse of power and killing of opposition. He then got defeated and his army was shattered, he narrowly escaped death in that war.

After that he reunited all tribes, made a grand army and vowed to dedicate his life for liberation of Jerusalem. He fought several wars to reclaim it and then to retain it till his death. It is said that he became very noble, humble and clever in his strategies after suffering that defeat. After conquering Jerusalem, he did showed mercy to Jews and Christians and didn't order massacre unlike Crusaders.
 
and you would me amazed to know that he was also labelled by muslim extremist of that time as murtad and his army as murtad army because of his peace agreement with queen of georgia :) now u know what kind of BS we are facing in Pakistan
 
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