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        Latin and Islamic Historiography of the Crusades

        A Comparative Study of William of Tyre (1130: 1185) and Ibn al-Athīr (1160: 1232)

        by Mona Jumaa Hammad (Dr.), Mustafa Wajih (Prof.)

        The First Crusade has produced more historical material than did any other event in the early Middle Ages. Because the participants of the Crusade were proud of their work, and their desire to retain a memory of their actions was severe. This book - which is originally a PhD thesis discussed at the University of Pennsylvania - discusses this topic. It consists of two parts: the first focuses on Islamic and Latin historiography and codification of Crusades, presents various types of historical literature for Crusades, and reveals the similarities and differences between Islamic and Christian annuals related to the period. As for the second part, it is a comparative study dealing with the approach of William of Tyre (1130: 1185) and Ibn al-Athīr (1160: 1232) in narrating and analyzing Crusades’ events, and comparing the two approaches in an attempt to understand the nature of relations between the Latin Emirates in the East and the Islamic World in the twelfth century.

      • Fiction
        October 2011

        Song at Dawn

        1150 in Provence

        by Jean Gill

        Winner of the Global Ebooks Award for Best Historical Fiction - a medieval thriller/romanceBook 1 in the Troubadours Series 1150 in Provence, where love and marriage are as divided as Christian and Muslim. A historical thriller set in Narbonne just after the Second Crusade. On the run from abuse, Estela wakes in a ditch with only her lute, her amazing voice, and a dagger hidden in her petticoats. Her talent finds a patron in Alienor of Aquitaine and more than a music tutor in the Queen's finest troubadour and Commander of the Guard, Dragonetz los Pros. Weary of war, Dragonetz uses Jewish money and Moorish expertise to build that most modern of inventions, a papermill, arousing the wrath of the Church. Their enemies gather, ready to light the political and religious powder-keg of medieval Narbonne. Watch the trailer youtube.com/watch?v=XZvFmOkD6Pc

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