Arabic Textual Sources for the Crusades

Alexander Mallett is Associate Professor in the Faculty of International Research and Education and a member of the team of the Chair of the State of Qatar for Islamic Area Studies at Waseda University, Tokyo. He has previously edited Medieval Muslim Historians and the Franks in the Levant (Leiden, 2014) and Franks and Crusades in Medieval Eastern Christian Historiography (Turnhout, 2021).

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Introduction


 Alexander Mallett





Part 1: Historiographical Texts


Al-ʿAẓīmī


 Alexander Mallett





Muḥyī l-Dīn Ibn ʿAbd al-Ẓāhir


 Gowaart Van Den Bossche





Ibn al-Furāt


 Fozia Bora





Al-ʿAynī as a Historian of the Crusades


 Clément Onimus





Part 2: Other Texts


ʿAlī b. Ṭāhir al-Sulamī and his Kitāb al-jihād


 Niall Christie





Usāma b. Munqidh


 Bogdan C. Smarandache





Ibn Jubayr and His Riḥla


 Maiko Noguchi





Bahāʾ al-Dīn Ibn Shaddād and al-Nawādir al-sulṭāniyya wa-l-maḥāsin al-yūsufiyya


 Ayumi Yanagiya





ʿIzz al-Dīn Ibn Shaddād


 Anne-Marie Eddé





Appendix: Main Sources of Ibn Shaddād





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