Description
The statue, in the main plaza of the city, depicts Saladin in the same pose and the same dress as he appears in a number of nineteenth-century Western depictions of the Crusades. To either side of Saladin's horse stand two foot soldiers and a Sufi. Behind the horse kneel two crusaders, Guy of Lusignan and Raynald of Châtillon. According to the sculptor, Saladin appears not as an individual warrior but as a leader embodying a wave of popular feeling against the Franks. The Sufi represents the simple religion of the people, the foot soldier represents the humble people all united with their hero under the banner of Islam.
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