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Arabic Textual Sources for the Crusades
Series: - The Muslim World in the Age of the Crusades, Volume: 5
Volume Editor:
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.
Alexander Mallett is Associate Professor in the Faculty of International Research and Education and a member of the team of the Chair of the State of Qatar for Islamic Area Studies at Waseda University, Tokyo. He has previously edited Medieval Muslim Historians and the Franks in the Levant (Leiden, 2014) and Franks and Crusades in Medieval Eastern Christian Historiography (Turnhout, 2021).
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Notes on Contributors
Introduction
Alexander Mallett
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
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
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
This volume will be of interest to anyone studying the Crusades, Islamic history, and Islamic historiography. It will appeal to a wide readership, from undergraduates to researchers at universities around the world.