| Resumo: | <p>In her life of Saladin, Anne-Marie Eddé notes that Saladin’s physicians were often highly cultivated men of letters, and mentions in particular the Andalusian emigré ʿAbd al-Munʿim al-Jilyani (531-602 or 3/1136-1206), regretting the loss of his ‘book on Saladin’s conquests’.</p> <br/> <p>We do not know much about al-Jilyani as a person, even though his extant writings are to some extent ego-documents in which his self-evaluation looms large; and in spite of his autobibliographies and Ibn Abi Usaybiʿa’s list of works based on them, our picture of him as an author and cultural actor lacks focus. To touch selectively on his output, throughout most of his adult life he composed mystical sayings, which he collected in Kitab Adab al-suluk. They are unpublished and have not been studied, and we do not know how they relate to his other writings. He wrote poetic descriptions of Saladin’s battles, dated from 565/1169-70 to 587/1191, which are reasonably well known because they are quoted by the historian of medicine Ibn Abi Usaybiʿa and the political historian Abu Shama. They are cited in twentieth-century Arabic scholarship on the poetry of the counter-Crusade, and will figure in a forthcoming English study of anti-Crusader poetry</p>
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