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The Crusades Through Arab Eyes

Author Amin Maalouf
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Knopf | Schocken
On sale Apr 29, 1989 | 320 Pages | 9780805208986
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Translated by Jon Rothschild.  Maalouf has combed the works of contemporary Arab chroniclers of the Crusades, eyewitnesses and often participants, to give us "a readable and entertaining mirror image of events that are as familiar in the West as fairy tales" (The New Yorker). The book is a vivid portrait of a society nearly destroyed by internal conflict and shake by a traumatic encounter with an alien culture, offering insights into the historical forces that shape Arab and Islamic consciousness today.
Prologue

Part One: Invasion (1096-1100)
1. The Franj Arrive
2. An Accursed Maker of Armour
3. The Cannibals of Ma'arra

Part Two: Occupation (1100-1128)
4. Tripoli's Two Thousand Days
5. Turban-Clad Resistance

Part Three: Riposte (1128-1146)
6. The Damascus Conspiracies
7. An Emir Among Barbarians

Part Four: Victory (1146-1187)
8. Nur al-Din, the Saint-King
9. The Rush for the Nile
10. The Tears of Saladin

Part Five: Reprieve (1187-1244)
11. The Impossible Encounter
12. The Perfect and the Just

Part Six: Expulsion (1244-1291)
13. The Mongol Scourge
14. God Grant That They Never Set Foot There Again!

Epilogue
Chronology
Glossary
Amin Maalouf is an eminent novelist, whose books include The Rock of Tanios, which won the 1993 Goncourt Prize, France's most prestigious literary award. He was formerly director of the leading Beirut newspaper an-Nahar and editor of Jeune Afrique. View titles by Amin Maalouf

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Translated by Jon Rothschild.  Maalouf has combed the works of contemporary Arab chroniclers of the Crusades, eyewitnesses and often participants, to give us "a readable and entertaining mirror image of events that are as familiar in the West as fairy tales" (The New Yorker). The book is a vivid portrait of a society nearly destroyed by internal conflict and shake by a traumatic encounter with an alien culture, offering insights into the historical forces that shape Arab and Islamic consciousness today.

Table of Contents

Prologue

Part One: Invasion (1096-1100)
1. The Franj Arrive
2. An Accursed Maker of Armour
3. The Cannibals of Ma'arra

Part Two: Occupation (1100-1128)
4. Tripoli's Two Thousand Days
5. Turban-Clad Resistance

Part Three: Riposte (1128-1146)
6. The Damascus Conspiracies
7. An Emir Among Barbarians

Part Four: Victory (1146-1187)
8. Nur al-Din, the Saint-King
9. The Rush for the Nile
10. The Tears of Saladin

Part Five: Reprieve (1187-1244)
11. The Impossible Encounter
12. The Perfect and the Just

Part Six: Expulsion (1244-1291)
13. The Mongol Scourge
14. God Grant That They Never Set Foot There Again!

Epilogue
Chronology
Glossary

Author

Amin Maalouf is an eminent novelist, whose books include The Rock of Tanios, which won the 1993 Goncourt Prize, France's most prestigious literary award. He was formerly director of the leading Beirut newspaper an-Nahar and editor of Jeune Afrique. View titles by Amin Maalouf

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