Index
ʿAbbas, Fatimid vizier
16–17, 18, 88
ʿAbbas ibn Shadi
159
ʿAbd al-Majid see al-Hafiz
ʿAbd al-Nabi, Mahdid ruler of Zabid
148
ʿAbd al-Samad, Fatimid administrator
150
Abu ʿAli Ahmad see Kutayfat
Acre
12, 22, 24, 70, 73, 84, 85, 100, 114, 116–17, 121, 122, 156, 165, 166, 168, 171n, 172–73
Aden
147
Al-ʿAdid, Fatimid caliph
17, 59–60, 95–96, 102, 106–7, 110, 124, 126, 131–33, 140, 142, 148, 150
Al-ʿAdil, Ayyubid emir, then ruler of Egypt (brother of Saladin)
43, 125–26, 132n, 142, 159–60, 163–64, 169–70, 171, 174
Al-Afdal, Fatimid vizier
10, 12–14, 17, 18, 19–20, 68, 74
Agnes of Courtenay (wife of Amalric of Jerusalem, then of Hugh of Ibelin)
31
Aimery of Limoges, Latin patriarch of Antioch
52
Aleppo
1, 5–6, 17, 35–38, 41–43, 50–51, 76, 79, 96, 126–27, 162–64, 166, 170
Alexander III, pope
136
Alexander of Conversano, count of Gravina
78, 168
Alexandria
7, 11, 13, 15, 16, 17, 26, 33, 60, 62, 67–73, 74n, 75, 81, 84, 88, 91, 97, 104, 106, 114–16, 120, 126, 130, 134, 143, 150, 151, 156–59, 161, 163, 164
Alp Arslan (son of Sultan Mahmud II)
36
Amin al-Dawla Gumushtakin, Syrian ruler of Salkhad
16, 39
Al-Amir, Fatimid caliph
13–14
Andronikos Angelos
168
Andronikos Kontostephanos, Byzantine megas doux
113, 117, 119–20
Antioch (inc. principality of)
19–20, 27, 29, 31, 38–39, 40, 42, 50–54, 75, 87, 89, 126, 136–37, 166, 167–168
Aqsunqur, ruler of Aleppo
35–36
Ard al-Tabbala (district of Cairo)
102
Al-ʿArish
19, 23, 26, 28, 58, 85, 117, 169, 170
Arnulf of Turbessel
71
ʿArqa
4
Arsuf
23, 136
ʿArtah
51
Ascalon
3, 16, 20–27, 31, 33, 34, 35, 48, 57, 74, 77, 87, 90–91, 99, 117, 121, 127–28, 143, 169, 170
Ashmunayn
16, 62–63
Al-Ashraf Abu’l-Qasim, treasurer of Alexandria
69
ʿAshtara
125–27
Assassins
13–14, 149
Aswan
10, 84, 126, 143, 159
Atfih
17, 58–59, 84n
Al-Awhad (son of Badr al-Jamali)
68
ʿAydhab
84, 126, 171
Ayla (ʿAqaba)
23, 57, 98, 128–30, 141, 153, 161, 170–71
ʿAyn al-Dawla al-Yaruqi, Syrian emir
25, 97, 106–7
ʿAyn Jalut, battle of
175
Ayyub, Syrian emir (father of Saladin)
36, 41–43, 124–26, 131, 134, 139–40, 143, 145, 154, 163
Al-ʿAziz, Ayyubid ruler of Egypt (son of Saladin)
174
Baalbek
37, 41, 43, 75, 127, 140
Al-Babayn, battle of
60n, 62–68, 71–72, 80–81, 106
Babylon
11
Badr al-Jamali, Fatimid vizier
12, 14–15, 17, 18, 68, 107, 131n
Baghdad
5, 11, 36, 41, 124, 131, 132, 145, 148
Bahaʾ al-Din Qaraqush al-Asadi, Ayyubid emir
106, 109, 130, 132–33, 144, 145, 164, 172
Al-Bahnasa
16, 84n
Bahram, Fatimid vizier
15, 18
Baldwin I, king of Jerusalem
19, 21–24, 28, 33, 74, 118n
Baldwin II, king of Jerusalem
25, 99
Baldwin III, king of Jerusalem
9, 25–29, 30n, 31, 38, 40, 47, 59, 77, 78, 113–14, 128, 135, 136, 137, 156, 166
Baldwin IV, king of Jerusalem
2, 31, 85, 99–100, 101, 156, 165–67
Baldwin V, king of Jerusalem
165
Balian of Ibelin
31
Banyas
38, 52, 53, 155
Al-Bataʾihi, Fatimid vizier
13
Bayn al-Qasrayn (square in the centre of Cairo)
109–10, 150
Beirut
21, 24, 26, 31
Bertrand of Blancfort, master of the Templars
53, 88, 114
Bethgibelin
25
Bethlehem
22
Bihruz, shihna of Baghdad
41, 43, 140
Bilbays
18n, 31–33, 45–49, 58, 60, 84, 86–87, 90–96, 98, 115, 123, 165, 169, 172
Birkat al-Jubb
94, 162, 164
Birkat al-Habash
93, 94
Blanchegarde
25
Bohemond I, prince of Antioch
20, 87
Bohemond III, prince of Antioch
27, 34, 50–51, 53, 54, 89n, 99, 123, 137, 139, 167n, 168
Bosra
25, 162
Cadesbarne see Kadesh Barnea
Caesarea
22, 23
Chastel Neuf
75
Constantine Kalamanos, Byzantine governor of Cilicia
40, 51, 54
Crac des Chevaliers
40, 75, 87, 123
Cyprus
27, 113, 117, 121, 167, 175
Daimbert, Latin patriarch of Jerusalem
20–21
Dalja
62–63
Damanhur
68
Damietta
26, 33, 67, 84, 86, 114–23, 124–26, 133, 135, 137, 139, 149, 158, 161, 164, 168, 170, 173–76
Darum
90, 117, 127–28, 155
Demenehut see Damanhur
Dirgham, Fatimid vizier
17–18, 26, 30–33, 45–48, 54–55, 92, 103–4, 107
Diya’ al-Din ʿIsa al-Hakkari, Syrian emir
106, 152, 169
Dongola
144
Dvin
41
Edessa (inc. county of)
20, 22, 37, 39
Ernesius, archbishop of Caesarea
77
Al-Faʾiz, Fatimid caliph
4, 16–17, 28
Fakhr al-Din Husam (brother of Dirgham)
45
Faqus
48, 86, 98, 155, 158, 164, 170, 172
Al-Farama
19, 23, 25, 58, 86, 117–18
Farrukhshah (nephew of Saladin)
163–64, 171
Fayyum
67, 84n
Fifth Crusade
2, 116–17, 174–75
First Crusade
2, 11, 13, 19–21, 22, 27, 50, 87, 138, 173
Frederick, archbishop of Tyre
69, 85, 112, 121
Frederick I, Holy Roman Emperor
167
Fulk, king of Jerusalem
25, 166
Fustat
3, 11, 33, 46, 58, 66, 67, 84, 92–93, 95–96, 103, 105, 114–15, 131, 134, 143, 164
Fuwa
84n, 174
Gabriel II, Coptic patriarch of Alexandria
15
Gaza
25–26, 58, 88, 127–29
Genoese
21, 34, 84, 114n, 173
Geoffrey Fulcher, preceptor of the Templars
27n, 52, 59, 83, 88
George Palaiologos, Byzantine megas hetaireiarches
78
George Sinaites
168
Gerard of Pugi, marshal of the kingdom of Jerusalem
62, 66, 136
Gharas al-Din Qilij, Syrian emir
97
Gilbert of Assailly, master of the Hospitallers
83, 86, 101
Giza
60, 62, 67, 84n, 110
Godfrey of Bouillon, ruler of Jerusalem
21–23, 87
Gormond of Tiberias, lord of Bessan
85, 99, 136
Gumushtakin, atabeg of Aleppo
39, 162, 166
Guy of Lusignan, king of Jerusalem
165, 172
Guy of Maneriis
99
Al-Hafiz, Fatimid caliph
14–16, 18
Hama
37, 126, 163, 168–169
Harim
51–53, 83n, 89n, 155, 166n, 168
Al-Harimi see Shihab al-Din al-Harimi
Harran
39
Hasan, Fatimid vizier
14, 15
Hattin, battle of
163, 165, 169, 172
Hebron
22
Heraclius, archbishop of Caesarea
112
Homs
37, 75, 76, 91, 96, 123, 126, 163
Hospitallers
49, 52, 82–90, 100, 101, 114, 115, 123, 165
Hugh, lord of Caesarea
59–60, 65, 71, 84
Hugh of Ibelin, lord of Ramla
31, 61–62, 66, 71, 73, 85
Hugh II of Le Puiset, lord of Jaffa
24–25, 87
Hugh of Lusignan
51
Humphrey II of Toron, constable of the kingdom of Jerusalem
27n, 52, 61, 85, 95, 99, 125
Humphrey [III] of Toron, lord of Transjordan
125, 166
Hunin see Chastel Neuf
Husam al-Din Luʾluʾ, emir hajib
171, 172–73
Ibelin
25
Ibn Kamil, Fatimid qadi
150
Ibn Masal, Fatimid vizier
16, 60
Ibn Ruzzik see Talaʾiʿ ibn Ruzzik
Ibn al-Sallar, Fatimid vizier
16, 18, 25, 103
Ibrim
143–44
ʿImad al-Din Zanki see Zanki
ʿImad al-Din Zanki II, Zankid ruler of Sinjar
127, 154
Al-ʿImadi, Nur al-Din’s emir hajib
127
ʿImm
51
ʿIzz al-Din Jurdik, Syrian emir
97, 103, 107
Jacob’s Ford
170
Jaffa
22, 26, 31
Jaffa-Ascalon, county of
28, 29, 34, 172
John, lord of Arsur
136
John, bishop of Banyas
112
John Doukas, Byzantine megas hetaireiarches
168
John Komnenos, Byzantine protosebastos
77
Jokermish, ruler of Mosul
36
Joscelin of Courtenay, titular count of Edessa and seneschal of the kingdom of Jerusalem
51, 100, 166, 167
Joscelin Pisellus
27, 114
Joscelin of Samosata
66
Kadesh Barnea
57
Kafartab
76
Kamal al-Din a-Shahrazuri, qadi of Damascus
145
Al-Kamil, Ayyubid ruler of Egypt (nephew of Saladin)
174–75
Al-Kamil (son of Shawar)
4, 18, 61–62, 75, 90, 99, 102–5, 107, 132
Kanz al-Dawla, Fatimid emir
143, 159
Kerak
125, 128n, 135, 140–41, 144–45, 153, 174
Kerbogha, ruler of Mosul
36
Al-Kharaqaniyya
109
Kutayfat, Fatimid vizier
14–15, 17, 18
Lake Manzala
118, 174
Lake Mariout
68, 116
Lamonia see Minya
Latakia
139
Lawata
16, 55
Louis VII, king of France
32–33, 52–53, 59, 169
Louis IX, king of France
175
Al-Luq (district of Cairo)
98, 102
Al-Mahalla al-Kubra
84n
Mahmud II, Seljuk sultan
36
Majd al-Din ibn al-Daya, Syrian emir
127
Malikshah, Seljuk sultan
36
Mamluks
175–76
Manuel Komnenos, Byzantine sebastos
78
Manuel I Komnenos, Byzantine emperor
3, 27, 38–39, 40, 51, 53, 54, 77–79, 101, 111, 112–13, 115, 120, 122, 135–38, 165, 167
Mansura
84n, 110, 117, 174–175
Al-Maqs (principal port of Cairo and Fustat)
134, 143
Maria of Antioch (wife of Manuel Komnenos)
167
Maria Komnene (wife of Amalric of Jerusalem, then Balian of Ibelin)
77–78
Masʿud, Seljuk sultan
36–37, 41
Mecca
4, 147
Medina
145, 170–71
Memphis
11
Michael of Otranto
78
Miles of Plancy, seneschal of the kingdom of Jerusalem
61, 85, 94, 99–101, 128, 156, 165, 166
Minya
63, 66, 134
Mongols
175
Montgisard, battle of
165, 169
Montreal
23, 33, 139–41, 153, 174
Mosul
5–6, 36–37, 41–43, 97, 127, 130, 134, 152, 163
Al-Muʿazzam Turanshah, last Ayyubid ruler of Egypt
175
Munaytira
75
Al-Mustadiʾ, ʿAbbasid caliph
130–31, 133
Al-Mustaʿli, Fatimid caliph
13
Al-Mustanjid, ʿAbbasid caliph
130
Al-Mustansir, Fatimid caliph
12–13, 68
Muʾtamin al-Khilafa, Fatimid official
109–10
Najm al-Din ibn Masal
60, 150
Nasir al-Dawla ibn Hamdan, Fatimid vizier
131
Nasir al-Din Humam (brother of Dirgham)
31, 45
Nasir al-Din Khumartakin, Syrian emir
97
Nasir al-Din Muhammad, Syrian emir (son of Shirkuh)
43, 76, 163
Nasir al-Muslimin Mulham (brother of Dirgham)
45
Nasr (son of ʿAbbas)
16–17, 88
Nizar (son of al-Mustansir)
13, 15, 68
Nizaris see Assassins
Normans of Italy see Sicilians
Nubia
10, 143–44, 146, 147–49, 159
Nusrat al-Din, Zankid emir (brother of Nur al-Din)
37, 39, 42–43, 52
Odo of Saint-Amand, butler of the kingdom of Jerusalem, then master of the Templars
77–78, 135
Oxyrhynchus see al-Bahnasa
Palmyra see Tadmur
Pagan, lord of Haifa
114
Petra
22, 57
Philip I, count of Flanders
165, 166–69
Philip II, king of France
173
Philip of Nablus, lord of Transjordan, then master of the Templars
61, 87–88, 114, 125, 135–36
Pisans
34, 70, 84, 88, 94–95, 99, 114–15, 134, 137, 156
Qalʿat Jaʿbar
37, 41, 76–77, 97, 127
Al-Qarafa, necropolis east of Fustat
46
Qilij Arslan
145
Qus
15, 17, 69, 71, 84, 126, 147, 159
Qutb al-Din Mawdud, Zankid ruler of Mosul (brother of Nur al-Din)
35, 37, 42, 51, 75, 127
Qutb al-Din Khusrau, Syrian emir
106–7
Qutb al-Din Yinal, Syrian emir
97, 107
Rabigh
171
Ralph, bishop of Bethlehem and chancellor of the kingdom of Jerusalem
65
Ramla
20, 173
Ramla, battles of
21
Raʾs al-Maʾ
97
Al-Rashid al-Zubayr, qadi of Alexandria
68
Raymond II, count of Tripoli
87
Raymond III, count of Tripoli
51, 54, 99–100, 123, 139, 155, 156, 165, 166n, 167, 168
Raymond of St Gilles
87
Reynald of Châtillon, prince-regent of Antioch, then lord of Transjordan
27, 38, 50n, 53–54, 128n, 136, 138, 166, 167–72
Reynald of Nephin
136
Richard I, king of England
163, 173
Ridwan, Fatimid vizier
15–16, 18, 39
Rohard of Jaffa, viscount of Jerusalem
77, 136
Rosetta
26, 67, 84n, 114–16, 174
Ruzzik, Fatimid vizier
3, 4, 17, 28–30, 32, 134, 150
Sadr
98, 170
Al-Sahib Muwaffaq ibn al-Qaysarani, vizier of Nur al-Din
146, 151–52
Al-Salih Ayyub, Ayyubid ruler of Egypt
175
Al-Salih Ismaʿil (son of Nur al-Din)
154, 162–63
Salkhad
16, 39
Samarra
36
Saruj
77
Sayf al-Din Ghazi, Zankid ruler of Mosul (brother of Nur al-Din)
37, 41, 42
Sayf al-Din Ghazi II, Zankid ruler of Mosul
127, 139, 152, 154–55, 162
Sayf al-Din al-Mashtub al-Hakkari, Syrian emir
106
Sayf al-Islam Tughtakin (brother of Saladin)
163
Sayyida Nafisa, shrine of (between Cairo and Fustat)
46
Second Crusade
37, 168–69
Seventh Crusade
2, 116–17, 175
Al-Shafiʿi, tomb of the imam (east of Fustat)
103
Shahanshah (brother of Saladin)
43, 163
Shams al-Din ibn al-Muqaddam, Syrian emir
155, 162
Shams al-Khilafa, Fatimid emir
49, 90, 93, 95, 98
Shams al-Khilafa, Fatimid governor of Ascalon
74
Sharaf al-Din Buzghish, Syrian emir
97
Sharaf al-Din Qaraqush, mamluk of Taqi al-Din
144
Sharuna
59
Shayzar
16, 38, 76, 168
Shihab al-Din al-Harimi, Syrian emir (uncle of Saladin)
106, 118, 125, 139, 143, 163, 164
Shihab al-Din Malik, ruler of Qalʿat Jaʿbar
76–77
Al-Shujaʿ al-Baʿalbakki
143
Sibylla, queen of Jerusalem (wife of William of Montferrat, then Guy of Lusignan)
31, 165–67
Sibylla of Anjou (daughter of Fulk of Jerusalem)
166
Sidon
21, 22, 24, 42, 136
Siryaqus
94, 98
Sicilians
26, 48, 149, 151, 156–59, 161, 164
Stephanie of Milly, heiress of Transjordan (wife of Humphrey [III] of Toron, then Miles of Plancy, then Reynald of Châtillon)
100, 166
Suez
98, 129, 170
Suez Canal
118, 176
Tabuk
170
Tadmur
127
Talaʾiʿ ibn Ruzzik, Fatimid vizier
4, 16–17, 18, 26, 28–30, 32, 34, 37–38, 104
Taqi al-Din, Ayyubid emir (nephew of Saladin)
43, 118, 125, 130, 139, 142, 143, 144, 163–64
Tayy (son of Shawar)
18n, 91, 94, 132
Al-Tayyib (infant son of al-Amir)
14
Templars
27n, 52–53, 59, 61, 78, 83–84, 85, 87–88, 114, 125, 127–28, 135
Theodore Mavrozomes, Byzantine mesazon
113
Thierry, count of Flanders
54, 168–69
Third Crusade
163, 172–73
Thoros II, prince of Cilician Armenia
27, 51
Tiberias
52, 144, 155
Tikrit
36, 41, 43, 140
Tinnis
26, 84, 86, 94, 114–18, 159, 164, 170, 173, 174–75
Toroge see Turujuh
Tripoli (inc. county of)
20, 24, 31, 40, 53, 54, 75, 79, 123, 139, 155
Tripoli, North Africa
144
Tud
159
Turanshah, Ayyubid emir (brother of Saladin)
4, 43, 108, 109–10, 124–26, 130, 132, 134, 143–44, 147–50, 153–54, 160, 163–65, 175
Turujuh
68
Tyre
22, 24, 25, 77–78, 117
Urban II, pope
19
Usama ibn Munqidh, Syrian emir
16–17, 25, 38
Venetians
34, 84
Walter of Quesnoy, knight of Humphrey of Toron
52
Walter of Saint-Omer, prince of Galilee
85, 99
William, bishop of Acre
112, 136
William, count of Nevers
79
William, marshal of the kingdom of Jerusalem
85, 99, 136
William II, king of Sicily
156, 157, 159
William [II] of Bures, prince of Galilee
27n
William of Montferrat (husband of Sibylla of Jerusalem)
165–67
Yanis, Fatimid vizier
14
Yemen
4, 67, 147–49, 150, 153, 154, 160, 162, 163–64
Zabid
147–48
Al-Zafir, Fatimid caliph
16
Zahir al-Din Badran, Fatimid emir
90
Zanki, ruler of Mosul and Aleppo
36–37, 41, 43, 50, 140
Zayn al-Din ʿAli ibn Naja, Hanbali jurist
150