He was even appointed as the chief physician at Al Naseri Hospital founded by the sultan Saladin Due to his discoveries, Nafis has been described by some as "the second Avicenna [Ibn Sina]”.

The holy month of Ramadan has a unique cultural flavour in Egypt, and among its special traditions is the firing of the ...

Battle and District Historical Society This month’s talk is ‘Life and Legacy of the Sultan Saladin’ by Professor Jonathan ...

The holy Muslim fasting month has always been an opportunity to share the Iftar meal, with this taking on magnificent ...

The story of Saladin has been told many times. One of the most influential portraits of the 12th-century Ayyubid sultan appeared in a work of fiction, Sir Walter Scott’s The Talisman (1825). In that ...

A Sunni Muslim of Kurdish descent, Saladin was the founder of the Ayyubid dynasty (which ruled over modern-day Egypt and parts of Iraq, Syria, Palestine and Yemen) and was the first man at the time of ...

and Saladin (from a prominent Kurdish family) once compared swords – the King used his heavy longsword to break through an iron bar, while the Sultan used his scimitar to slice through a silk ...

Relive the historic Crusades as Richard the Lionheart and the Saladin, Sultan of Syria. It won’t be easy, and you’ll need to make sure you manage your crusaders in order to survive.

This Lebanese city is one of the oldest in the world and has ancient ruins, plenty of food options, and pristine ...

When he arrived in Damascus, the city welcomed him like a war hero, prompting the British consular agent to declare that ‘no such Arab had entered Damascus since the days of Saladin ... The Ottoman ...