The Crusades Through Arab EyesEuropean and Arab versions of the Crusaders have little common. What the West remembers as an epic effort to reconquer the Holy Land is portrayed here as a brutal, destructive, unprovoked invasion by barbarian hordes. When, under Saladian, a powerful Muslin army-inspired by prophets and poets-defeated the Crusaders, it was greatest victory ever won by a non-European society against the West. |
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Contents
PART ONE INVASION 10961100 | 3 |
An Accursed Maker of Armour | 19 |
The Cannibals of Maarra | 37 |
PART Two OCCUPATION 11001128 | 57 |
Tripolis Two Thousand Days | 59 |
TurbanClad Resistance | 82 |
PART THREE Riposte 11281146 | 107 |
The Damascus Conspiracies | 109 |
The Rush for the Nile | 159 |
The Tears of Saladin | 176 |
PART Five REPRIEVE 1187 1244 | 201 |
The Perfect and the Just | 218 |
PART Six ExPULSION 12441291 | 233 |
God Grant That They Never Set Foot | 247 |
| 261 | |
Notes and Sources | 267 |
An Emir Among Barbarians | 123 |
PART Four Victory 11461187 | 141 |
Nür alDin the SaintKing | 143 |
Chronology | 277 |
A Note on Pronunciation | 285 |
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Common terms and phrases
Acre al-Afdal al-Harawi al-Kāmil al-Mustarshid al-Mustazhir Aleppans Aleppo Alexius alliance Amalric Antioch Arab world Armenian arrived Ascalon asked Assassins atabeg attack Ayyūb Ayyubid Baghdad Bahá Baldwin basileus battle Baybars Beirut besieged Bohemond brother Cairo caliph camp cavalry Christian chronicler citadel command Constantinople Damascene Damascus Damietta Danishmend death decided defenders dinars Duqāq East Edessa Egypt Egyptian emir emperor enemy expedition Fakhr al-Mulk Fatimid fight forces fortress Franj Frankish Frankish army Frankish invasion hand holy city Ibn al-Athir Ibn al-Khashāb Ibn al-Qalānisi Ilghazi invaders Islam Jerusalem jihād Karbüqa Kilij Arslan killed king Kingdom of Jerusalem knights Ma'arra Mamluk massacre master Mongol mosque Mosul Muhammad Muslim never Nicaea Nür al-Din Occidentals palace Palestine prince qādi Qutuz Ridwan ruler Rüm Saint-Gilles Saladin Saláh al-Din seized Seljuk sent Shāwar Shayzar Shirkūh siege soldiers soon sultan Syria Tancred thousand Tripoli troops Tughtigin Turkish Turks Tyre victory vizier walls Yaghi-Siyān Yūsuf Zangi
Bibliographic information
| Title | The Crusades Through Arab Eyes Saqi Essentials |
| Author | Amin Maalouf |
| Translated by | Jon Rothschild |
| Edition | illustrated, reprint, reissue |
| Publisher | Schocken Books, 1984 |
| ISBN | 0805208984, 9780805208986 |
| Length | 293 pages |
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