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The Crusades- Islamic Perspectives

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by Carole Hillenbrand


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  Author’s note

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  Index

  ‘Abbāsids

  caliphate in Cairo, 98, 227

  empire, 15

  Seljuq Turks and, 17

  ‘Abd al-Ghānī, 120, 179

  ‘Abd al-Latīf, Saladin and, 186

  ‘Abd al-Wahhāb al-Shīrāzī, 110

  ‘Abdallāh ibn Ja‘far, 267(fig.)

  Abdülhamid II (Ottoman sultan), 593

  al-Abīwardī (poet), 32, 69–70, 72

  Abla, princess, 268(fig.)

  Abū Bakr, Muslim navy and, 575

  Abū Sa‘īd al-Harawī, 78

  Abū Shāma (historian, writer), 83, 138, 140, 171, 193–4

  Crusader fleets, 565

  Frankish leaders, 343, 344, 345

  Frankish women, 347

  Jerusalem, 151

  minbar, 158, 161

  Muslims in captivity, 549

  swords, 455

  Abū Sulaymān Dā’ūd, medicine and, 354

  Abu’l-Fidā (chronicler), 298

  mangonels, 524

  Abu’l-Khayr, medicine, 354

  Acre, 204

  coin with Arabic legend, 398

  Crusader-Muslim contact, 401, 402

  fall of, 1, 29, 172, 240, 298

  Frankish women, 349

  Ibn Jubayr on, 276

  Ibn Taymiyya and, 242

  jihād, and fall of, 171–251, 238–41

  Mamluks until fall of, 225–7

  mangonels and, 524

  mosque at, 163

  reconquest of, 24

  siege of, 238, 530, 531, 536–7

  as soiled, 294

  trade and, 403

  travellers and, 370

  Actium, Greek fire and, 528

  ‘Adb al-Dawla, 70

  al-‘Ādil, al-Malik, (brother of Saladin), 25, 184, 201, 206, 213, 223, 414

  cross-breaking, 306

  military manuals, 515

  Muslim fortifications, 481

  al-Afḍal (son of Saladin), 183, 184, 211–13

  al-Afḍal (vizier of Egypt, son of Badr al-Jamālī), 42, 44, 45, 46, 58–9, 77, 82

  Agnes of Courtenay, 296

  Aḥmadīlī, Aq Sunqur (ruler of Maragha), 161

  Ahmed, Akbar, 590

  ‘Ajlūn Castle, Jordan, 493, 497(fig.)

  al-Ākhārīnī (carpenter of minbar), 155

  ‘Alā al-Dīn Kayqubād, Crusader fleets and, 566

  alabaster portal, Mashhad ‘Awn al-Dīn, Mosul, Iraq, 220(plate)

  Alamūt, 44

  Alan, first Crusader lord of Athārib, 258

  Aleppo, Syria, 79, 80, 82, 116, 363

  capture of, 172

  citadel of, 483–92

  Frankish Christianity and, 313

  Great Mosque, see Great Mosque of Nūr al-Dīn, Aleppo

  jihād titulature in, 231

  Muslim fortifications, 473

  religious building appropriation and, 373

  shihna of, 296

  Alexandria, 269

  Crusader fleets and, 565

  Crusader-Muslim contact, 402

  navy and, 567

  Oriental Christians and, 417–18

  pigeons and, 548

  pilgrims and, 366

  Saladin in, 182–3

  siege of, 534

  Alexius Comnenus (Byzantine emperor), 20, 68–9

  ‘Alī ibn Munqidh, 166

  Allenby, General, 604

  Almohads, 250

  glazed ceramic dish, Spain, 560(plate)

  Oriental Christians and, 418

  Almoravids, Oriental Christians and, 418

  Alp Arslān (Seljuq sultan), 18, 71

  ‘Amadiyya, Iraq

  city gate, 219(plate)

  minbar, Great Mosque, 107(plate)

  Amalric (Crusader leader), medicine and, 354

  ambushes, 544–5

  Amīr Beshtak Palace, Cairo, 245(fig.)

  ‘amūd, 456

  Anatolia (Turkey), 18, 329 in eleventh century, 40–2

  al-Ansārī military manuals and, 515

  pigeons and, 547–8

  spies and, 549

  ‘Antār and Abla, 266(fig.)

  Antioch, 29, 82, 172, 320

  fall of, 46, 56–9, 104

  Holy Lance and, 314

  siege of, 20, 68

  Aqsā Mosque, Jerusalem, 147, 151–61,298, 301

  Ayyūbid porch, 383 (plate)

  cultural exchange, 382

  façade, 221 (plate)

  Frankish occupation of, 286–91

  interior, 67(plate), 147(plate)

  mihrāb, 300(plate), 302(plate)

  minbar detail, 152–5(plates), colour plate 10

  Muslims under Frankish rule, 378

  perspectival view, 288(fig.)

  al-Aqsarā’ī ambushes, 545

  military arts, 448

  military manuals, 437–8

  Arab Historians of the Crusades (Gabrieli), 14

  Arabia, Frankish threat to pilgrimage, 291–3

  Arabian Nights, 263

  Arabs

  cavalry, 511–12

  at sea, 556–77

  architecture, 382

  cultural exchange and, 381–91

  armour, 459–64

  of Muslims, 450–68

  arms

  Nizām al-Mulk, 464–5

  of Muslims, 450–68

  social role of, 465–7

  ‘Arqa, 75

  Arsūf

  capture of, 75

  conquest of, 232

  siege defenders, 532

  Artah, castle of, 411

  artworks, warfare and, 433–5

  Arwād, fortifications and, 470

  Asad, President Hafez, 596, 600

  Ascalon, 44, 46, 166

  navy and, 563

  Second Crusade and, 23

  sieges and, 533

  al-Ashraf (Ayyubid prince), 308

  al-Ashraf Khalīl (Mamluk sultan), 29, 238, 240–1 ‘Āshūr, 4

  Assassins, 44, 76

  of Alamūt, 28

  castles of, 467, 500–2

  language barrier and, 333

  Saladin and, 183

  Athārib, 258, 363

  sieges and, 533

  axes, 456

  Mamlūk, 456(plate)

  Aybak (commander), 207

  Muslim castles and, 493

  ‘Ayn al-Baqar, Muslims under Frankish rule, 379

  ‘Ayn Jālūt

  battle of, 28, 225

  Mamluks and, 244

  Ayyūbids/Ayyūbid period, 24–6, 195–204, 414

  army of, 444–5

  canteen, 8(plate), 390(plate) establishment of, 201–11

  Jerusalem in, 211–23

  jihād and, 204–11, 224–5, 248

  mangonels and, 524

  metalwork with Christian imagery, 388–91

  Oriental Christians and, 414

  trade, 403–7

  al-’Azīmī (Syrian chronicler), 32, 37, 44, 50, 51–2, 54, 56, 58, 64, 66, 68, 69, 74

  al-’Azīz ‘Uthmān, al-Malik (son of Saladin), 206, 396, 491

  Baalbek (Ba’labakk), citadel of, 241

  Bāb al-Futūh, Cairo, 34(plate), 36(plate), 37(plate) bastions, 35(plate)

  Bāb al-Naşr (Gate of Victory), Cairo, 43(plate), 460(plate) from within, 40(plate) shields and, 458, 461 (plate)

  Badr al-Dīn Lu’lu’ (Turkish atabeg), Ayyubid metalwork, 388

  Badr al-Jamālī (vizier), 33, 42

  Badrān Ibn Mālik, 351

 
Badrhawa (Frankish knight), chivalric values and, 356

  Baghdad, 15, 79, 127

  destruction of, 246

  Bahā’ al-Dīn, Oriental Christians and, 413

  al-Balādhurī, 285

  Balak (nephew of ll-Ghāzī), 110

  Balāt, battle of (Field of Blood), 22, 81, 108–9, 514

  Baldwin I, of Boulogne, 20

  Muslims on, 341

  Baldwin II, of Ibelin

  Frankish prisoners in captivity, 554

  Muslims under Crusader rule, 361

  Baldwin III, king of Jerusalem, 77

  Crusader-Muslim contact, 401

  Muslims on, 336

  Baldwin IV (the leper), 295

  chivalric values, 355

  Frankish leaders, 343

  Baldwin IX of Flanders, 24

  ballista (‘arrāda), 525

  banner, Mamlūk, 518(plate), 519(plate)

  Baptistère de St Louis, 12(fig.), 13(fig.), 14(fig.), 18(fig.), 21(fig.), 113(fig.), 115(fig.)

  warfare and, 541–2

  Bāqidīn, Syria, pilgrims and, 367

  Bargello Museum, Florence, 406

  Barkyāruq (Seljuq sultan, son of Malikshāh), 38, 78

  bathhouse, 276–8

  battering rams, 527–8

  battles, 518–21

  formation, 518–21

  tactics, diagrammatic form, 520(fig.)

  Baybars al-Mansūrī (chronicler), 238

  Baybars (Mamluk sultan), 29, 226, 244, 479

  army of, 446

  Caesarea and, 537–8

  career of, 227–37

  correspondence, 320

  Crusader-Muslim contact, 394

  Cyprus, 306

  destruction of religious monuments, 380–1

  dirham of, 28(plate) and Franks, 264, 265, 340, 348, 471

  images, 308

  jihād, 235–7, 246

  language barrier, 333

  mangonels, 524

  military manuals, 516

  Mongols, 225

  Muslims in captivity, 549

  navy, 571–2, 575–6

  recognition of, 5

  sieges, 529, 533

  Bayt al-ahzān (Le Chastelet),

  Frankish fortifications, 472–3

  Beaufort (Shaqīf Arnūn), conquest of, 238

  Bedouin Arab cavalry, 511–12

  Beirut, 29

  Great Mosque, 374

  navy and, 568

  Bethlehem, 26, 308

  Bīmaristān Nūr al-Dīn, 127

  bin Laden, Usāma, 602

  bodyguard, Turkish, Lashkar-i

  Bāzār, Afghanistan, 466(fig.)

  Bohemond VI, 265

  correspondence, 320

  Muslims on, 341–2

  Book of Animals (Kitāb al-hayawān) (Ibn Abi’l-Ash‘ath), 271

  Book of Government (Nizām al-Mulk), 439, 442, 548

 

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