Egypt, Syria, and Arabia, were adorned by the royal foundations of hospitals, colleges, and mosques; and Cairo was fortified with a wall and citadel; but his works were consecrated to public use: [55] nor did the sultan indulge himself in a garden or palace of private luxury.

In a fanatic age, himself a fanatic, the genuine virtues of Saladin commanded the esteem of the Christians; the emperor of Germany gloried in his friendship; [56] the Greek emperor solicited his alliance; [57] and the conquest of Jerusalem diffused, and perhaps magnified, his fame both in the East and West.
[Footnote 46: For the Curds, see De Guignes, tom.ii.p.416, 417, the Index Geographicus of Schultens and Tavernier, Voyages, p.i.p.

308, 309.

The Ayoubites descended from the tribe of the Rawadiaei, one of the noblest; but as _they_ were infected with the heresy of the Metempsychosis, the orthodox sultans insinuated that their descent was only on the mother's side, and that their ancestor was a stranger who settled among the Curds.] [Footnote 47: See the ivth book of the Anabasis of Xenophon.

The ten thousand suffered more from the arrows of the free Carduchians, than from the splendid weakness of the great king.] [Footnote 48: We are indebted to the professor Schultens (Lugd.