Syria in Crusader Times: Conflict and Co-ExistenceHillenbrand Carole Hillenbrand 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. |
Contents
the Syrian Orthodox Community in Twelfthcentury | |
Remembering Frankish Rule 1144 and After | |
Diplomatic Relations and Coinage among the Turcomans the Ayyubids and | |
Symbolic Conflict and Cooperation in the Neglected Chronicle of a Syrian Prince | |
the Case for Tolerance | |
entre | |
the Runup to 1260 | |
Abd alMunim alJilyanis Mudabbajat | |
Ayyubid Realpolitik and PoliticalMilitary Vicissitudes versus Countercrusading | |
Assessing the Evidence for a Turning Point in AyyubidFrankish Relations in | |
Saladin Generosity and Giftgiving | |
Glossary | |
The Portrayal of Violence in Walter the Chancellors Bella Antiochena | |
Images of Hell in Muslim Descriptions of the Franks | |
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