Fan Casting Salah ad-Din Yusuf ibn Ayyub in Robin Hood and the House of Plantagenet (TV-Series)

The visionary Sultan of Egypt and Syria whose unification of the Muslim world has pushed the Crusader states to the brink of collapse. A master of strategic patience and psychological warfare, Saladin views Richard not just as an enemy, but as a worthy mirror of his own ambition. While he projects an image of chivalrous piety, he is a ruthless pragmatist who manages a fragile coalition of emirs through a mixture of charisma and iron control. He is the ultimate obstacle to the Crusade, a leader who understands that in the East, time and the desert are far more lethal than any knight’s charge.