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Title Syria in Crusader times : conflict and coexistence / edited by Carole Hillenbrand.

Publication Info. Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2020]
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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 384 pages) : illustrations, maps
Twelfth century
Physical Medium polychrome
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Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 339-371) and indexes.
Contents Hamdan al-Atharibi's History of the Franks revisited, again / Paul M. Cobb -- Legitimate authority in the Kitab al-Jihad of 'Ali b. Tahir al-Sulami / Kenneth A. Goudie -- Politics, religion and the occult in the works of Kamal al-Din Ibn Talha, a vizier, 'Alim and author in thirteenth-century Syria / A.C.S. Peacock -- Adapting to Muslim rule : the Syrian Orthodox community in twelfth-century Northern Syria and the Jazira / R. Stephen Humphreys -- The afterlife of Edessa : Remembering Frankish rule, 1144 and after / Christopher MacEvitt -- Diplomatic relations and coinage among the Turcomans, the Ayyubids and the crusaders : Pragmatism and change of identity / Taef El-Azhari -- Symbolic conflict and cooperation in the neglected chronicle of a Syrian prince / Luke Yarbrough -- A critique of the scholarly outlook of the crusades : the case for tolerance and coexistence / Suleiman A. Mourad -- The portrayal of violence in Walter the Chancellor's Bella Antiochena / Thomas Asbridge -- Infernalising the enemy : Images of hell in Muslim descriptions of the Franks during the crusading period / Alex Mallett -- Sunnites et chiites a Alep sous le regne d' al-Salih Isma'il (569-77/1117 4-81) : entre conflits et reconciliations / Anne-Marie Edde -- The war of towers : Venice and Genoa at war in crusader Syria, 1256-8 / Thomas F. Madden -- Gaza in the Frankish and Ayyubid Periods : the run-up to 1260 CE / Reuven Amitai -- Picture-poems for Saladin : 'Abd al-Mun'im al-Jilyani's Mudabbajat / Julia Bray -- Ayyubid Realpolitik and political-military vicissitudes versus counter-crusading ideology in the memoirist-chronicler al-Katib al-Isfahani / Lutz Richter-Bernburg -- Assessing the evidence for a turning point in Ayyubid-Frankish relations in a letter by al-Qadi al-Fadil / Bogdan C Smarandache -- Saladin, generosity and gift-giving / Jonathan Phillips -- Hülegü : the New Constantine? / Angus Stewart
Summary Presenting numerous interconnected insights into life in Greater Syria in the twelfth century, this book covers a wide range of themes relating to Crusader-Muslim relations. Some chapters deal with various literary sources, including little-known Crusader chronicles, a jihad treatise, a lost Muslim history of the Franks, biographies, letters and poems. Other chapters look at material culture, from coins to urban development, internal relations between Sunni and Shi'ite Muslims and between Crusader and Oriental Christians, and the role of the Turkmen. New insights into the career of Saladin are revealed, for example through the work of a little-known propagandist at his court, and Saladin's use of gift-giving for political purposes, as well as neglected aspects of the rule of his family dynasty, the Ayyubids, which succeeded him. Special attention is paid to the Christians residing in the Middle East, from Italians to Melkites and Armenians. -- Provided by publisher
Biography Carole Hillenbrand is Honorary Professorial Fellow, Professor Emerita at the University of Edinburgh and Professor of Islamic History at the University of St Andrews since 2013. In 2005 she became the first non-Muslim scholar to be awarded the prestigious King Faisal International Prize for Islamic Studies, reflecting her "revolutionary approach to the largely one-sided subject of the Crusades". She is author of The Crusades (EUP, 1999), The Waning of the Umayyad Caliphate (Albany, 1989), A Muslim Principality in Crusader Times (Brill, 1990), and co-editor (with C.E. Bosworth) of Qajar Iran, (Edinburgh, 1984) and editor of The Sultan's Turret (Brill, 1999).
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Subject Islam -- Relations -- Christianity.
Islam.
Relations.
Christianity.
Christianity and other religions -- Relations -- Islam.
Christianity and other religions.
Syria -- History -- 750-1260.
Syria.
History.
Chronological Term 750-1260
Genre/Form History.
Electronic books.
Added Author Hillenbrand, Carole, editor.
Other Form: Print version: Syria in Crusader times. Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2020 147442970X (OCoLC)1086325135
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