Qadi al-Fadil

Muhyi (or Mujir) al-Din Abu Ali Abd al-Rahim ibn Ali ibn Muhammad ibn al-Hasan al-Lakhmī al-Baysani al-Asqalani, better knwon as al-Qadi al-Fadil (Arabic: القاضي الفاضل, lit. 'the Excellent Judge'; 3 April 1135 – 26 January 1200) was an Arab official who served the last Fatimid caliphs, and became the secretary and chief counsellor of the first Ayyubid sultan, Saladin. Quotes They advanced like men; like women they vanished. The forces of the Atabeg of Mosul and the Shah of Armenia abandon their position on the plain of Harzem, below Maridin, to avoid battle with Saladin (late February – early March 1183). Stanley Lane-Poole, Saladin and the Fall of the Kingdom of Jerusalem (G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1906) p. 172 Quotes about al-Fadil 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. 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 External links Category:1130s births Category:1200 deaths Category:Arab historians Category:People of the Crusades