[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 RawadiÊi, 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. Bat, 1755, in folio) for the richest and most authentic materials, a life of Saladin by his friend and minister the Cadhi Bohadin, and copious extracts from the history of his kinsman the prince Abulfeda of Hamah. To these we may add, the article of _Salaheddin_ in the BibliothËque Orientale, and all that may be gleaned from the Dynasties of Abulpharagius.] [Footnote 49: Since Abulfeda was himself an Ayoubite, he may share the praise, for imitating, at least tacitly, the modesty of the founder.] [Footnote 50: Hist. Hierosol. in the Gesta Dei per Francos, p. 1152. A similar example may be found in Joinville, (p. 42, edition du Louvre;) but the pious St. Louis refused to dignify infidels with the order of Christian knighthood, (Ducange, Observations, p 70.)] [Footnote 51: In these Arabic titles, _religionis_ must always be understood; _Noureddin_, lumen r.; _Ezzodin_, decus; _Amadoddin_, columen: our hero's proper name was Joseph, and he was styled _Salahoddin_, salus; _Al Malichus_, _Al Nasirus_, rex defensor; _Abu Modaffer_, pater victoriÊ, Schultens, PrÊfat.] [Footnote 52: Abulfeda, who descended from a brother of Saladin, observes, from many examples, that the founders of dynasties took the guilt for themselves, and left the reward to their innocent collaterals, (Excerpt p. 10.)] [Footnote 53: See his life and character in Renaudot, p. 537--548.] [Footnote 54: His civil and religious virtues are celebrated in the first chapter of Bohadin, (p. 4--30,) himself an eye-witness, and an honest bigot.] [Footnote 55: In many works, particularly Joseph's well in the castle of Cairo, the Sultan and the Patriarch have been confounded by the ignorance of natives and travellers.] [Footnote 56: Anonym. Canisii, tom. iii. p. ii. p. 504.] [Footnote 57: Bohadin, p. 129, 130.]