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"Abstract:"Saladin remains one of the most iconic figures of his age. As the man who united the Arabs and saved Islam from Christian crusaders in the twelfth century, he is the Islamic world's preeminent hero. A ruthless defender of his faith and brilliant leader, he also possessed qualities that won admiration from his Christian foes. But Saladin is far more than a historical hero. Builder, literary patron, and theologian, he is a man for all times, and a symbol of hope for an Arab world once again divided. Centuries after his death, in cities from Damascus to Cairo and beyond, to the Arabian Peninsula and the Gulf, Saladin continues to be an immensely potent symbol of religious and military resistance to the West. He is central to Arab memories, sensibilities, and the ideal of a unified Islamic state. John Man charts Saladin's rise to power, his struggle to unify the warring factions of his faith, and his battles to retake Jerusalem and expel Christian influence from Arab lands. Saladin explores the life and enduring legacy of this champion of Islam while examining his significance for the world today."--Offers a portrait of Saladin, the twelfth-century sultan who defended Islam against the Christian crusaders and sought to unify the factions within his faith, as well as his enduring legacy as a champion of Islam"

"This book is a political biography of Sultan Hamengku Buwono IX (1912-88), one of Indonesia's most respected founding fathers. Altough revered and admired at home and abroad, this is his first biography in English. This is largely because the Sultan was an intensely private person who meticulously guarded his public persona, and information about his life is not readily accessible."

"Exploring the history of the Gonds of Deccan India, the book traces the genealogy of the periphery in the Indian subcontinent. The idea of periphery in India is shaped by narratives of wildness, empire building, insurgency, migration, protectionism, and development. State-making in India involved war, destruction, violence, taxation, subjugation, and caste suppression. In the process many self-governing communities were driven into non-state spaces, in this case the hills and forests. The Gonds Rajas of the Chanda dynasty had maintained their relative autonomy through the ages, keeping many an empire at bay. The British conquered the hill and forest tracts, and initially sought to integrate the Gonds into a wider caste-Hindu society as property-owning peasant farmers by offering zamindari rights to some Gond Rajas as well as by encouraging caste-Hindus to migrate into hill the tracts. This policy failed for a variety of reasons. The adivasis (indigenous peoples) relinquished their lands in protest against colonial revenue and agricultural policies and settled deeper into the forest. This led to resistance and insurgency in this region. In response, the colonial state adopted a policy of protectionism, creating an administrative boundary between mainland plains and hills that served to exoticize and stigmatize the adivasis, who were judged to be primitives undeserving of self-rule. During the last decades of the British rule, the Gonds reimagined their ruling past to challenge the colonial and the princely state. This was crucial to the Gonds to negotiate a place for them within the colonial and postcolonial state establishment."