Alliances and treaties between Frankish and Muslim rulers in the Middle East : cross-cultural diplomacy in the period of the Crusades / by Michael Köhler ; translated by Peter M. Holt ; revised, edited and introduced by Konrad Hirschler.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kohler, Michael.

Contributor:

Hirschler, Konrad.

Holt, P. M. (Peter Malcolm)

Series:

The Muslim World in the Age of the Crusades 1.

The Muslim world in the age of the Crusades : studies and texts ; volume 1

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Crusades--First, 1096-1099.

Crusades.

Islamic Empire--Foreign relations--750-1258.

Islamic Empire.

Islamic Empire--Foreign relations--Latin Orient.

Jerusalem--History--Latin Kingdom, 1099-1244.

Jerusalem.

Latin Orient--Foreign relations--Islamic Empire.

Latin Orient.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (384 p.)

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In Alliances and Treaties between Frankish and Muslim Rulers Michael Köhler presents a fully integrated study of Frankish-Muslim diplomacy in the period from the First Crusade through to the thirteenth century. It is a ground-breaking study that challenges preconceived notions of the relations between Frankish and Muslim rulers in the Middle East. Commonly portrayed as an era of conflict, the period appears here as one in which conventions of diplomatic cooperation were commonplace. This book is one of the few works in the fields of Crusader Studies and Middle Eastern Studies that draws to the same extent on Arabic and Western sources; two textual traditions that have usually been studied in isolation from each other.

Contents:

Preliminary Material / Michael A. Köhler

Introduction / Michael A. Köhler

I The Development of the Syrian System of Autonomous Lordships (c. 1070–1099) / Michael A. Köhler

II Relations Between the Frankish, Turkish and Arab States in the Period of the Syrian Autonomous Rulers (1098–1158) / Michael A. Köhler

III Frankish-Muslim Relations in the Period of Nur al-Din and Saladin (1158–92) / Michael A. Köhler

IV Instruments and Implications of Frankish-Muslim Legal Relations in the Middle East during the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries / Michael A. Köhler

Conclusions / Michael A. Köhler

Bibliography / Michael A. Köhler

Index / Michael A. Köhler

Maps / Michael A. Köhler.

Notes:

Translated from German.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed November 25, 2013).

ISBN:

90-04-24890-0

OCLC:

862049218

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004248908 DOI