. Saladin and the fall of the Kingdom of Jerusalem. SILVER COIN OF SALADIN STRUCK AT DAMASCUS IN 1177. CHAPTER IX. THE CONQUEST OF THE news of the death of Nur-ed-din fell likea thunderbolt among the Saracens. It waswholly unforeseen. On the 6th of May^ 1174}he was out riding with one of his courtiers,^dis-coursing in his philosophic way upon the uncertaintyof human life : on the 15th he was carried off, in hisfifty-sixth year, by a contemptible quinsy. Nosovereign since Melik Shah had been so his subjects he was a model of all virtue, theembodiment of Moslem piety,
. Saladin and the fall of the Kingdom of Jerusalem. SILVER COIN OF SALADIN STRUCK AT DAMASCUS IN 1177. CHAPTER IX. THE CONQUEST OF THE news of the death of Nur-ed-din fell likea thunderbolt among the Saracens. It waswholly unforeseen. On the 6th of May^ 1174}he was out riding with one of his courtiers,^dis-coursing in his philosophic way upon the uncertaintyof human life : on the 15th he was carried off, in hisfifty-sixth year, by a contemptible quinsy. Nosovereign since Melik Shah had been so his subjects he was a model of all virtue, theembodiment of Moslem piety, a second Omar ibnAbd-el-Aziz, as religious, just, and clement a kingas ever ruled. Even the Crusaders bore witness tohis chivalrous character, and William of Tyre admitsthat, in spite of his race and creed, Noradinuswas a just prince, wise, and religious, though agreat oppressor of Christians. Justice was thequality he valued next to—indeed as a part of—godliness. He would himself appear in the kadyscourt to answer the process of a subject, a
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