{资源屯-ziyuantun.com}Two men of faith, one a traveling Christian preacher, the other the ruler of a Muslim Empire, bucked a century of war,{Ziyuantun.Com} distrust, and insidious propaganda in a search for mutual respect and common ground. It is the story of Francis of Assisi and the Sultan of Egypt, and their meeting on a bloody battlefield during the period of Christian- Muslim conflict known as the Crusades. —Alexander Kronemer