Re: [Marxism] The Book of Saladin

[Carrol Cox <cbcox@xxxxxxxxx>]

Louis Proyect wrote:
>
> Admittedly, I didn't care for this Tariq Ali novel one bit, but it
> certainly does put forward a sympathetic portrayal of Saladin.

For a gloriously sympathetic reference to Saladin, see Dante, _Hell_,
Canto IV, the limbo of unbaptized infants & virtuous pagans. Saladin
stands out there because all the others lived before xtianity:

        That Brutus who drove out the proud Tarquin;
          Lucrece, Corneiia, Julia, Marcia four
          Together, and by himself the Saladin.

        When I had raised my eyes a little more,
          I saw the Master* of those who know: he sate
          Amid the sons Philosophy to him bore.
                        (Binyon tr., IV, 127-32)
*Aristotle

Carrol

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