Full Description
Building upon previous volumes by the same editor, this book contains studies of nine of the most important writers of Arabic-language textual sources for the Crusades and the Frankish presence in the eastern Mediterranean in the period 1097-1291.
Contents
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Notes on Contributors
Introduction
Alexander Mallett
Part 1: Historiographical Texts
Al-ʿAẓīmī
Alexander Mallett
Muḥyī l-Dīn Ibn ʿAbd al-Ẓāhir
Gowaart Van Den Bossche
Ibn al-Furāt
Fozia Bora
Al-ʿAynī as a Historian of the Crusades
Clément Onimus
Part 2: Other Texts
ʿAlī b. Ṭāhir al-Sulamī and his Kitāb al-jihād
Niall Christie
Usāma b. Munqidh
Bogdan C. Smarandache
Ibn Jubayr and His Riḥla
Maiko Noguchi
Bahāʾ al-Dīn Ibn Shaddād and al-Nawādir al-sulṭāniyya wa-l-maḥāsin al-yūsufiyya
Ayumi Yanagiya
ʿIzz al-Dīn Ibn Shaddād
Anne-Marie Eddé
Appendix: Main Sources of Ibn Shaddād
Index



