Table of Contents

List of Abbreviations
Acknowledgements
Introduction

1. The Sources
2. Saladin in Egypt, 1169-1174
3. The Consolidation of Saladin's Rule
4. The Army
5. The Navy
6. The Non-Muslim Communities

Conclusions
Bibliography
Index

About the Author

Yaacov Lev, Ph.D., University of Manchester, is Senior Lecturer in Islamic medieval history, Bar-Ilan University, Israel. Recent publications include State and Society in Fatimid Egypt (Brill, 1991), and a collection of articles edited by him on War and Society in the Eastern Mediterranean, 7th-15th Centuries (Brill, 1997).