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Syria in Crusader times : conflict and coexistence
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ISBN: 1474429726 147442970X Year: 2020 Publisher: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press,

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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.

A muslim principality in crusader times : the early Artuqid state
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ISBN: 9062580661 9789062580668 Year: 1990 Volume: 66 66 Publisher: Istambul: Nederlands Historisch-Archaeologisch Instituut te İstanbul,

Turkish myth and Muslim symbol
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ISBN: 9780748625734 9780748625727 0748625720 0748625739 9780748631155 9786611252236 0748671358 1281252239 0748631151 Year: 2007 Publisher: Edinburgh Edinburgh University Press

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Turks ruled the Middle East for a millennium and eastern Europe for many centuries and it is an undoubted fact that they moulded the lands under their dominion. It is therefore something of a paradox that the history of Turkey and aspects of the identity and role of the Turks, both as Muslims and as an ethnic group, still remain little known in the west and undervalued in the Arabic and Persian-speaking worlds. This book contributes to historical scholarship on Turkey by focusing on its key foundational myth, the battle of Manzikert in 1071 - the Turkish equivalent of the battle of Hastings. Manzikert destroyed the hold of Christian Byzantium on eastern Turkey and opened the whole country to the spread of Islam, a process completed with the fall of Constantinople and Trebizond some four centuries later. Translations and a close analysis of all the extant Muslim sources - both Arabic and Persian - which deal with the battle of Manzikert are provided in the book. It also looks at these writings as literary works and vehicles of religious ideology and analyses the ongoing confrontation between the Muslim Turks and Christian Europe and the importance of Manzikert in the formation of the modern state of Turkey since 1923.

The Crusades : Islamic perspectives
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ISBN: 0748606300 9780748606306 0748609059 9780748609055 1474469167 Year: 2010 Publisher: Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press in association with The Aga Khan University,

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This book discusses a group of themes designed to highlight how Muslims reacted to the alien presence of the Crusaders in the heart of traditional Muslim territory. Ideological concerns are examined and the importance of the jihad is assessed in the context of the gradual recovery of the Holy Land and the expulsion of the Crusaders. Two chapters are devoted to an analysis of warfare—arms, battles, sieges, fortifications—on the basis of written sources and extant works of art, and the neglected aspect of the navy is brought into prominence. One chapter deals with the complex issue of the interaction between Muslims and Crusaders in a social, economic and cultural setting. The epilogue traces in outline the profound impact of the Crusades on Muslim consciousness until the present day. Hillenbrands introduces some of the wider aspects of the history of the Crusades from the Muslim side. Accordingly, as a deliberate policy, an attempt is made here to view the phenomenon of the Crusades entirely through the prism of medieval Muslim sources. This naturally involves bias, but such a bias is salutary given the cumulative impact of centuries of Eurocentric scholarship in this field and it should help to create a more balanced picture of this fascinating and momentous period of Christian/Muslim confrontation and interaction.


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Syria in Crusader times
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ISBN: 9781474429702 9781474429726 1474429726 9781474429733 1474429734 147442970X Year: 2020 Publisher: Edinburgh

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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.


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The life and work of W. Montgomery Watt
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ISBN: 1474447341 1474447325 Year: 2019 Publisher: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press,

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This commemorative volume discusses aspects of the life and work of the internationally famous scholar Professor W. Montgomery Watt (1909-2006).


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The life and work of W. Montgomery Watt
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ISBN: 9781474447331 Year: 2020 Publisher: Edinburgh : Edinburgh university press,

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Islam and the Crusades : collected papers
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ISBN: 9781474485906 Year: 2022 Publisher: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press,

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Crusades. --- Islamic Empire --- History

Studies in Honour of Clifford Edmund Bosworth, Volume II
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ISBN: 9789004491991 9789004110755 Year: 2000 Publisher: Leiden;Boston BRILL

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Professor C.E. Bosworth FBA is a Middle East historian of world stature. In this volume his friends and colleagues come together to honour his 70th birthday. This book ranges widely over time and space but its core is the Islamic culture of Iran and Turkey. The contributors cover topics from the Arab conquest in the seventh century to Turkish and Iranian nationalism in the twentieth century. Special attention is paid to medieval Turco-Persian history, an area which lies at the heart of Professor Bosworth's oeuvre : more than half of the articles fall into this category. Moreover, five of them focus on that early medieval eastern Iranian world on which he has written so widely. While the emphasis lies squarely on history, other fields such as religion, literature, music, art and numismatics are also represented. Thus the volume offers a conspectus of the cultural contribution of Iran and Turkey to Islamic civilisation.

The crusades : Islamic perspectives
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ISBN: 0415929148 Year: 2000 Publisher: New York (N.Y.): Routledge

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Crusades --- Islamic Empire --- History

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