Islam and the Crusades : : Collected Essays / / Carole Hillenbrand.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2021 English
• VerfasserIn: Hillenbrand, Carole,
• Place / Publishing House: Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]; ©2022
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: Edinburgh Studies in Classical Islamic History and Culture
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (416 p.) :; 12 B/W illustrations; 32 colour illustrations

Collects 20 papers on the Crusades by one of the world’s leading experts on medieval Islamic historyTraces the evolution of scholarship on the Crusades over several decadesIncludes many papers located in out-of-print or hard-to-find worksIncludes a preface that outlines Professor Hillenbrand's interest in the Crusades over the course of her career, and an index of names, places and termsThe papers collected in Islam and the Crusades showcase multiple perspectives, especially as viewed from the Muslim side. The volume explores the distinctive nature of Islamic jihad as expressed in poetry, sermons and inscriptions; the development of the counter-crusade; and the careers of major Muslim leaders including Zengi and Saladin.Islam and the Crusades is publishing alongside two further volumes of Carole Hillenbrand's collected papers: Classical Islam and The Medieval Turks.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgements -- Preface -- 1 Some Medieval Islamic Approaches to Source Material: The Evidence of a Twelfth-century Chronicle -- 2 A Neglected Episode of the Reconquista: A Christian Success in the Second Crusade -- 3 Jihad Propaganda in Syria from the Time of the First Crusade until the Death of Zengi: The Evidence of Monumental Inscriptions -- 4 The First Crusade: The Muslim Perspective -- 5 ‘Abominable Acts’: The Career of Zengi -- 6 Sultanates: Ayyubids -- 7 Some Reflections on the Imprisonment of Reynald of Châtillon -- 8 Some Reflections on the Use of the Qur’an in Monumental Inscriptions in Syria and Palestine in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries -- 9 The Legacy of the Crusades -- 10 The Evolution of the Saladin Legend in the West -- 11 Ayyubids -- 12 Ayyubid Jerusalem: A Historical Introduction -- 13 Jihad Poetry in the Age of the Crusades -- 14 The Shi‘is of Aleppo in the Zengid Period: Some Unexploited Textual and Epigraphic Evidence -- 15 A Short History of Jihad -- 16 Muslim Jerusalem, the Crusades and the Career of Saladin -- 17 The Holy Land in the Crusader and Ayyubid Periods, 1099–1250 -- 18 The Assassins in Fact and Fiction: The Old Man of the Mountain -- 19 Saladin’s ‘Spin Doctors’ -- 20 The Sultan, the Kaiser, the Colonel and the Purloined Wreath -- Original Sources of the Items in This Volume -- Index