Syria in Crusader Times: Conflict and Co-Existence

This book provides new insights into life in Greater Syria in the twelfth century, including Crusader-Muslim relations, literary sources, material culture, and the Ayyubid dynasty. It also highlights the Christians residing in the Middle East, including Italians, Melkites, and Armenians.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 400 pages
Publication date: 31 August 2021
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press

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.

Weight: 614g
Dimension: 155 x 233 x 29 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781474429719