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130: 36: 325:, appointed him chancellor, and he also became al-Fadil's deputy. Although Saladin had been unsure of his talent because he was only a scribe, Imad al-Din soon became one of the sultan's favourites. As chancellor he did not have to perform the everyday duties of the chancery scribes, and he had a lot of leisure time in 357:, where he again criticised Saladin's generosity; he was also disgusted by those in charge of the ransom who took bribes, and the rich Crusader nobles who took their treasures with them rather than ransoming the poor. He was present at Acre again during the 456:
Donald S. Richards, "Emad al-Din Kateb Esfahani" in Encyclopedia Iranica. "The family of Persian origin into which ʿEmād-al-Dīn Kāteb was born had a tradition of administrative service for the Saljuq dynasty and the caliphate."
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From then on he accompanied Saladin on all his campaigns. After a certain raid, he was chosen to kill one of the prisoners, but the prisoner was a child and was instead exchanged for a Muslim prisoner held by the
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attributes it to Imad al-Din, but this seems to be an error, for its information on Saladin does not align too well with that of Imad al-Din's biography. He died on 5 June 1201 in Damascus.
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After the death of Nur ad-Din in 1174, Imad al-Din was removed from all his bureaucratic duties, and was banished from the palace. He went to live in
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EMĀD-AL-DĪNKĀTEB, ABŪ ʿABD-ALLĀH MOḤAMMAD b. Moḥammad b. Ḥāmed EṢFAHĀNĪ in Encyclopedia Iranica by Donald S. Richards
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After Saladin's death in 1193, he began writing his biographies of the sultan. He wrote the
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to accompany his many historical works and worked as a man of letters during the
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A heavily fictionalised version of Imad ad-Din is portrayed in the 2005
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Imad ad-Din is also portrayed in "The Book of Saladin: A Novel" by
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of Damascus, Kamal ad-Din. The qadi presented him to the Zengid
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