Research Catalog

Title

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

Publication

• Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2020.
• ©2020

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Details

Additional Authors

Hillenbrand, Carole

Description

xiv, 384 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (black and white, and color), color maps; 24 cm

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. --

Subjects

• Islam
• Syria
• Informational works
• History
• Interfaith relations
• Christianity
• Islam > Relations > Christianity
• 750-1260
• Christianity and other religions > Relations > Islam
• Syria > History > 750-1260

Genre/Form

• Informational works.
• History.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographic references (pages 339-371) and indexes

Contents

• Part 1. Sources. Hamdan al-Atharibi's History of the Franks Revisited, Again -- Legitimate Authority in the Kitab Al-Jihad of ʿAli B. Tahir al-Sulami -- Politics, Religion and the Occult in the Works of Kamal al-Din Ibn Talha, a Vizier, 'Alim and Author in Thirteenth-Century Syria.
• Part 2. Christians. Adapting to Muslim Rule: the Syrian Orthodox Community in Twelfth-Century North Syria and the Jazira -- The Afterlife of Edessa: Remembering Frankish Rule, 1144 and After.
• Part 3. Convivencia. Diplomatic Relations and Coinage among the Turcomans, the Ayyubids and the Crusaders: Pragmatism and Change of Identity -- Symbolic Conflict and Cooperation in the Neglected Chronicle of a Syrian Prince -- A Critique of the Scholarly Outlook of the Crusades: The Case for Tolerance and Co-Existence.
• Part 4. War and Peace.The Portrayal of Violence in Walter the Chancellor's Bella Antiochena -- Infernalising the Enemy: Images of Hell in Muslim Descriptions of the Franks During the Crusading Period.
• Part 5. Cities. Sunnites et Chiites à Alep sous le règne d'al-Salih Isma'il (569-577/1174-1181): entre conflits et réconciliations -- The War of Towers: Venice and Genoa at War in Crusader Syria, 1256-58 -- Gaza in the Frankish and Ayyubid Periods: the Run-up to 1260 CE.
• Part 6. Saladin's Men. Picture-poems for Saladin: 'Abd al-Mun'Im al-Jilyani's Mudabbajat -- Ayyubid Realpolitik and Political-Military Vicissitudes Versus Counter-Crusading Ideology in the Memoirist-Chronicler al-Katib al-Isfahani -- Assessing the Evidence for a Turning Point in Ayyubid-Frankish Relations in a Letter by al-Qadi al-Fadil.
• Part 7. Key personalities. Saladin, Generosity and Gift-Giving -- Hülegü: the New Constantine?

Call Number

JFE 20-3587

ISBN

• 147442970X
• 9781474429702

OCLC

1086325135

Title

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

Publisher

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2020.

Copyright Date

©2020

Type of Content

text

still image

cartographic image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographic references (pages 339-371) and indexes

Chronological Term

750-1260

Added Author

Hillenbrand, Carole, editor, writer of preface.

Research Call Number

JFE 20-3587