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History books generally read wars through numbers, dates, and simpleREADPart 2: The Battlefield of Hattin — Tactical Genius and the Apocalypse of Thirst

Today, the name Saladin (Selahaddin Eyyubi) is often perceived asREADPart 1: The Spirit of the State — The Identity Codes of the Ayyubids and the Origins of Saladin