Islam and the Crusades

Carole Hillenbrand is Honorary Professorial Fellow, Professor Emerita at the University of Edinburgh and Professor of Islamic History at the University of St Andrews since 2013. In 2005 she became the first non-Muslim scholar to be awarded the prestigious King Faisal International Prize for Islamic Studies, reflecting her ‘revolutionary approach to the largely one-sided subject of the Crusades’. She is author of The Crusades (EUP, 1999), The Waning of the Umayyad Caliphate (Albany, 1989), A Muslim Principality in Crusader Times (Brill, 1990), and co-editor (with C. E. Bosworth) of Qajar Iran, (Edinburgh, 1984) and editor of The Sultan's Turret (Brill, 1999).

• PrefaceSome Medieval Islamic Approaches to Source Material: The Evidence of a Twelfth-century ChronicleA Neglected Episode of the Reconquista: A Christian Success in the Second CrusadeJihad Propaganda in Syria from the Time of the First Crusade until the Death of Zengi: The Evidence of Monumental InscriptionsThe First Crusade: The Muslim PerspectiveAbominable Acts: The Career of ZengiSultanates: AyyubidsSome Reflections on the Imprisonment of Reynald of ChâtillonSome Reflections on the Use of the Qur’an in Monumental Inscriptions in Syria and Palestine in the 12th and 13th CenturiesThe Legacy of the CrusadesThe Evolution of the Saladin Legend in the WestAyyubidsAyyubid Jerusalem – A Historical IntroductionJihad Poetry in the Age of the CrusadesThe Shi‘is of Aleppo in the Zengid Period: Some Unexploited Textual and Epigraphic EvidenceA Short History of JihadMuslim Jerusalem, the Crusades, and the Career of SaladinThe Holy Land in the Crusader and Ayyubid Periods, 1099-1250The Assassins in Fact and Fiction. The Old Man of the MountainSaladin’s Spin DoctorsThe Sultan, the Kaiser, the Colonel and the Purloined WreathOriginal Sources and Page Numbers of the Items in this VolumeIndex

Offers afresh the Muslim perspective of the Crusades and will prove a handy tool for students, scholars, and those interested in the subject.