Eight hundred years ago, a simple Christian friar and a mighty Muslim leader met on the bloody battlefield of the Crusades. What happened next changed world history. The Sultan and The Saint tells one of the great, lost stories from history set during the brutal time of the Crusades. Two men of faith, one a Christian preacher, the other the ruler of a Muslim Kingdom, bucked a century of war and distrust in search for peace. It is the true story of Francis of Assisi and the Sultan of Egypt, and their meeting on a bloody battlefield, when one of the largest Crusader armies ever assembled tried to conquer Egypt.