The book Saladin And the Fall of the Kingdom of Jerusalem was written by author Lane-Poole, Stanley, 1854-1931 Here you can read free online of Saladin And the Fall of the Kingdom of Jerusalem book, rate and share your impressions in comments. If you don't know what to write, just answer the question: Why is Saladin And the Fall of the Kingdom of Jerusalem a good or bad book?
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CHAPTER VIII. SALADIN AT CAIRO. II7I-II73. VISITORS to modern Cairo see very little of Saladin's capital. Besides the three ancient gates, three ruined mosques, and part of the old walls, nothing remains of the city he traversed when he first rode out from the Fatimid palace at the head of his guard. The most conspicuous feature of the present Cairo, the Citadel, with its slender Turkish minarets and commanding battle- ments, did not exist : only a rounded spur of Mount Mukattam suggested the p...lace where a fortress should be built. Most of the wide expanse, now covered by the European houses of the Ismailiya quarter, between the Ezbekiya and the river, was under water ; for in Saladin's day the Nile ran much further east and almost washed the city wall at the part where the river-suburb of el-Maks then stood. Bulak and its island were not as yet risen above the surface of the water, and there was no Abbasiya suburb on the north. Houses and streets indeed 1 1 2 Saladin. m7l stretched then, as now, beyond the old Zuweyla Gate, towards the south, as far as the chapel of " our lady Nefisa," and there were many buildings or ruins of former habitations beyond this, where we now see only hill after hill of rubbish-heaps smothered in sand — the melancholy memorials of what was once the stately city, bowered in gardens, of old Fustat, and still older Babylon.
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