Identifier: saladinfallofkin00lane (find matches)
Title: Saladin and the fall of the Kingdom of Jerusalem
Year: 1898 (1890s)
Authors: Lane-Poole, Stanley, 1854-1931
Subjects: Saladin, Sultan of Egypt and Syria, 1137-1193
Publisher: London Putnam
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

View Book Page: Book Viewer
About This Book: Catalog Entry
View All Images: All Images From Book
Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book.

Text Appearing Before Image:
wall ofthe Arab Mosque the pilgrim to the tomb of Saladinmay still read the inscription which overhung thelintel of the older Church, and which thirteen centu-ries of Moslem rule have not erased : H- BACIAEIA- COY- XE- BACIAEIA- IIANTON- TON-AIONON- KAI- H- AECnOTIA- COY- EN- IIACH-TENEAI KAI TENEAI Thy kingdom, O Christ, is an everlasting king-dom, and thy dominion endureth throughout allgenerations. * The city in Saladins time must have shown muchthe same mixture of colours and races as now. Thedress and customs of the Moslems change veryslowly, and the same peoples, clad in the same wayfor many centuries, must have thronged its bazars,and dwelt in the exquisitely carved and paintedrooms round the shaded courts of the houses.Then, as now, the city was divided into numerouswalled quarters, closed at night by heavy gates, andoccupied originally by members of a separate clan.Then, as now, the clear water of the Golden Streamflowed through a network of carefully planned * Ps. cxlv., 13.
Text Appearing After Image:
Myfe 1184) Damascus. 185 channels, and was brought to every street and evento the poorest houses. But invasion and fire, Tatarvandalism and Ottoman neglect, have dimmed thesplendour of the mosques and palaces ; and now eventhe noble Omayyad Mosque, where the great Caliphsof the seventh century preached as leaders of thefaithful, where Moawiya held up before the trem-bling congregation the bloody shirt of the murderedOthman, and pinned Nailas severed fingers to thepulpit,—the mosque where Saladin worshipped theGod of Battles, has been seared and ruined by a con-suming fire. Its mosaics were the triumph of artistsfrom Persia, India, and Byzantium, and exhaustedthe revenues of Syria for seven years, besides eighteenshiploads of gold and silver from Cyprus. The Spanish Arab, Ibn-Jubeyr, who visited Da-mascus in 1184, when Saladin was living there, hasleft us a minute description of the wonders of thismarvellous mosque, not least among which was theclock in which brazen falcons struck th

Note About Images