Muslim sources of the crusader period : an anthology / edited and translated, with an introduction, by James E. Lindsay & Suleiman A. Mourad.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lindsay, James E., 1957- editor, translator, writer of introduction.

Contributor:

Murād, Sulaymān ʻAlī, editor, translator, writer of introduction.

Rosengarten Family Fund.

Language:

Arabic

English

Subjects (All):

Crusades.

Islam--Relations--Christianity--History--To 1500.

Islam.

Christianity and other religions--Islam--History--To 1500.

Christianity and other religions.

Muslims--Mediterranean Region--History--To 1500.

Muslims.

Franks--History.

Franks.

History.

Muslims--Church history.

Christianity.

Interfaith relations.

Church history.

Relations.

Mediterranean Region.

Genre:

Church history.

History.

Literature.

Physical Description:

xxvii, 291 pages : maps ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Indianapolis : Hackett Publishing Company, Inc., [2021]

Summary:

Drawn from greater Syria, northern Mesopotamia, and Egypt, the sources in this anthology--many of which are translated into English for the first time here--provide eyewitness and contemporary historical accounts of what unfolded in the eastern Mediterranean and the Near East between the eleventh and fourteenth centuries. In providing representative examples of the many disparate types of Muslim sources, this volume opens a window onto life in the Islamic Near East during the Crusader period and the interactions between Franks and Muslims in the broader context of Islamic history.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: ch. 1 Travel Literature and Geographical Guides

1. Al-Harawi on Antioch, Tiberias and its surroundings, Acre, Jerusalem, Bethlehem, Hebron, and Ascalon

2. Ibnjubayr on the Christians of Mount Lebanon and trade between Muslims and Franks

3. Ibnjubayr on the cities of Banyas, Acre, Tyre, and the Muslims under Frankish rule

4. Yaqut al-Hamawi on Ascalon, Jaffa, Caesarea, Adit, Acre, Tyre, Margat, Saone, and Kerak

ch. 2 Jihad Books and Juridical Directives

1. Ibn 'Asakir on Jihad

2. Al-'Izz son of cAbd al-Salam on Jihad

3. Al-Subki's account of al-'Izz son of 'Abd al-Salam's juridical directive banning the sale of arms to the Franks

4. Ibn Taymiyya's juridical directive against the Shi'is

ch. 3 Chronicles, Memoirs, and Poetry

1. Ibn al-Athir on the emergence of the Franks

2. Ibn al-Qalanisi on the capture of Antioch, Ma'arrat al-Nu'man, and Jerusalem, and the attack against Ascalon in 1098-1099

3. Ibn al-Athir on the capture of Jerusalem and the attack against Ascalon

4. Al-'Azimi on the Battle of the Field of Blood (1119) and several events between 1108 and 1141

5. Hamdan al-Atharibi on receiving a land tenure from the Frankish lord of al-Atharib

6. Al-Qaysarani's poems about the Frankish and Greek women in Antioch

7. Ibn al-Qalanisi on the siege of Damascus in 1148

8. Ibn al-Athir on the siege of Damascus

9. Ibn 'Asakir's poem about Nur al-Din in honor of his forces taking Egypt in 1169

10. Ibn al-Athir on the defeat of the Franks at Hattin in 1187

11. `Imad al-Din al-Isfahani on the seizure of the Relic "of the True Cross, the capture of Tiberias, and the execution of the Frankish prisoners

12. Rashid al-Din al-Nabulusi's poem on Saladin's liberation of Jerusalem in 1187

13. Ibn Shaddad on the expedition of the German emperor and the letter of the Armenian catholicos to Saladin in 1190

14. Ibn al-Athir on the Franks' capture of Acre in 1191

15. Sibt Ibn al-Jawzi on al-Mu'azzam's destruction of the wall of Jerusalem in 1219

16. Sibt Ibn al-Jawzi on the Franks' capture of Damietta in 1219 and their defeat in 1221

17. Sibt Ibn al-Jawzi on the envoys of Frederick to al-Mu'azzam in 1226

18. Ibn Wasil on Frederick arriving in Acre in September 1228

19. Sibt Ibn al-Jawzi on Frederick's visit to the Noble Sanctuary of Jerusalem in March 1229

20. Ibn Wasil on the negotiations between al-Kamil and Frederick, and the emperor's visit to the Haram of Jerusalem

21. Ibn Wasil on the handing over of Jerusalem to the Franks in 1243

22. Al-Yunini on a local Christian ransoming a Muslim captive from a Frank

23. Jamal al-Din Ibn Matruh's poem on the defeat of King Louis IX near Damietta in 1250

24. Abu Shama on the Mongols' capture of Damascus in 1260

25. Ibn Wasil on the battle of 'Ayn Jalut in 1260 and related events

26. Ibn Wasil on a Muslim embassy to Emperor Manfred in 1262

27. Baybars al-Mansuri on the capture of Crac des Chevaliers (1271); the death of the Sultan Baybars (1278); and the capture of Tyre, Sidon, Atlit, Beirut, and Haifa (1291)

28. Al-Nuwayri al-Iskandarani on Peter of Cyprus's sack of Alexandria in 1365

ch. 4 Biographies

1. Ibn 'Asakir on Jesus

2. Ibn 'Asakir on al-Findalawi

3. Ibn 'Asakir on Nur al-Din

4. Sibt Ibn al-Jawzi on al-Mu'azzam

5. Al-Dhahabi on al-Mu'azzam

6. Ibn Abu Usaybi'a on the Christian physician Ya'qub son of Siqlab

7. Al-Dhahabi on the Christian physician Ya'qub son of Siqlab

ch. 5 Correspondences, Treaties, and Truces

1. Al-Qalqashandi's account of Saladin's letter of condolence to King Baldwin IV in 1174

2. Ibn Shaddad on Saladin's negotiations with Richard the Lionheart in 1191 and the latter's proposal that al-'Adil marry Richard's sister Joan

3. Ibn Nazif al-Hamawi's account of Frederick's letter to commander Fakhr al-Din son of Shaykh al-Shuyukh

4. Al-Qalqashandi's account of the oaths of the truce between Sultan Qalawun and the Franks of Acre, Sidon, and Atlit

ch. 6 Inscriptions

1. Fatimid inscription on a tower fortification in Ascalon (1150)

2. Inscription on the pulpit that Nur al-Din commissioned for the Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem (1168-1169)

3. Inscription panel marking the foundation of a trench around the fortification wall of the old city of Jerusalem during the reign of Saladin (1191)

4. Inscription above the entrance to St. Anne's Church in Jerusalem, transformed into a college of Shafi'i law and named after Saladin

al-Madrasa al-Salihiyya (1192)

5. Inscription above the main entrance gate to the shrine in Hebron housing the cenotaphs of Isaac and Rebecca (1215)

6. Foundation inscription on the wall of the Fortress of Subayba (Nimrod's Fortress) on the hills overlooking Banyas (1228)

7. Inscription above the arch of the gate to the northwest tower of the Fortress of Subayba (1230)

8. Inscription on a mosque in the village of Bayt Hanun (1239)

9. Inscription on the mausoleum of Khalid son of al-Walid in Hims (1266)

10. Inscription on the shrine of Salman al-Farisi in Ashdod (1269)

11. Inscription commemorating Baybars's renovations of Crac des Chevaliers (1271)

12. Inscription commemorating Baybars's renovations of the Fortress of Subayba (1275)

13. Inscription on a hospice in Hebron for visitors to the shrine of Abraham (1280)

14. Inscription on a hospice for pilgrims in Jerusalem (1282)

15. Inscription on the top and the bottom of the two doors of the gate that leads to the shrine housing the cenotaphs of Abraham and Sarah (1286).

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-269) and indexes.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.

ISBN:

1624669840

9781624669842

9781624669965

1624669964

OCLC:

1246141205

Publisher Number:

99990693993