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- Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 09:57:32 PST
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- From: Laurie Abbott <BL.LXA@RLG.BITNET>
- Subject: Arab views of the Crusades
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- >From: Carty Ellis <CELLIS@BROCKVMA.BITNET>
- >Subject: Islamic (Arab) resources
-
- Carty, there are bazillions of Arab accounts of the Crusades, and a few
- of them have even been translated. The most famous is the account by
- Ibn al-Qalanisi (d. 1160), who wrote "The Damascus Chronicle of the
- Crusades" (London, Luzac) and "The History of Damascus" (he was living
- there during the Crusades, so his work reflects that).
-
- There's a nineteenth century Turkish work that has been translated
- into French, if you can handle that: Joseph Michaud, tr. of "Histoire
- des Croisades" ("Emr 'al-acib fi tarih-i ehl is-salib"). That's now in
- its 4th edition.
-
- Joshua Prawer has also translated a modern Arab work published in Cairo
- in 1981, "World of the Crusaders" ('Alam al-salibiyin al-tabah.)
-
- There is also Amin Maalouf's work, "Croisades vues par les Arabes,"
- which is available in English ("The Crusades Through Arab Eyes")
- (London: Al Saqi Books, 1984).
-
- There's another report of the Crusades by a guy named Usama ibn
- Munqidh (1095-1188), which has been translated into German
- ("Memoiren eins syrischen Emirs aus der Zeit der Kreuzzuge")
- and in part into English in an anthology called "The Islamic
- World," edited by William H. McNeill and Marilyn Waldman.
-
- There are also two pretty new scholarly works out on the subject
- of the Crusades, and you might want to take a look at them (even
- if they're not what you want, you may be able to get some other
- references from the bibliography): Carole Hillenbrand, "A
- Muslim Principality in Crusader Times" (Leiden 1990) and
- Christopher Marshall ("Warfare and the Latin East, 1192-1291,"
- published by Cambridge U Press 1992). I have actually glanced
- through the Marshall, and it's a little pompous and still
- rather heavily slanted, but it may be useful.
-
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