"No scribe is known to have reached a position with regard to his master comparable to that achieved by al-Fāḍil with Saladin. It was said that the lands were not conquered by the armies of Saladin but by al-Fāḍil's pen."
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Sūq al-Fāḍil (‘Umar ibn ‘Abd al-‘Azīz ibn al-‘Adīm, MS. 4). Malcolm C. Lyons and D. E. P. Jackson, Saladin: The Politics of the Holy War (Cambridge UP, 1984) ch. 3, p. 57
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