About the Author
Stanley Lane-Poole (1854-1931) researched Egyptian archaeology for the British Museum and was Professor of Arabic studies at Dublin University. His books include The Life of Edward William Lane (1877), Egypt (1881), Studies in a Mosque (1883), Social Life in Egypt (1884), The Story of the Moors in Spain (1886), Turkey (1888), Saladin (1898), and The Mohammedan Dynasties (1894), among others.
