Baybars Successors

Author : Translated by David Cook
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000041077
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Baybars’ Successors written by Translated by David Cook and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-03-19 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ibn al-Furat (d. 1405) is an understudied Mamluk historian, whose materials for the period of the later Crusades is unique. While sections of his history for the period prior to 1277 have been translated, later sections have not. His text provides both an overview and a critique of earlier historians, and supplies us with a large number of unique documents, treaties, and intimate discussions that are not to be found elsewhere. This translation provides a continuous narrative from 1277 until the assassination of al-Malik al-Ashraf in 1293, with selections from Ibn al-Furat's later entries concerning the Crusades until 1365.

Author : Michael S Fulton
Publisher : Pen and Sword Military
ISBN 13 : 1399091271
Total Pages : 367 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Crusader Castle written by Michael S Fulton and published by Pen and Sword Military. This book was released on 2024-03-30 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The formidable strongholds built by the crusaders are among the most iconic castles of the Middle Ages. These mighty structures offer fascinating insights into the lives of those who built and occupied them, and the role they played in the region’s deep history of conflict. The castle of Kerak, in modern Jordan, is one of the largest, most imposing and best preserved of them all, and Michael Fulton’s detailed, authoritative and highly illustrated account is the ideal guide to it. His close analysis of the fabric of this monumental building, and his description of the centuries of conflict associated with it, make absorbing reading. He takes the reader through the early military history of the castle – from the time it was constructed in the 1140s by Pagan the Butler, through the provocative actions of Reynald of Châtillon and Saladin’s capture of the castle in 1188. He also recounts its later history under Muslim rule, when the castle served as a treasury for the Ayyubid and Mamluk sultans of Egypt. Falling into decline under the Ottomans, Kerak has since regained its importance as a tourist attraction. A part-by-part examination of the castle and surviving elements of the adjoining medieval town allows readers to appreciate the different stages in the development of this incredible structure and to visualize how it evolved and functioned at different points in time. The detailed architectural guide will be an essential reference for readers who have the opportunity to visit the castle and for those who are keen to gain the best possible understanding of it without going to the site.

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ISBN 13 : 9780367223977
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.7X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Baybars' Successors written by and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ibn al-Furat (d. 1405) is an understudied Mamluk historian, whose materials for the period of the later Crusades is unique. While sections of his history for the period prior to 1277 have been translated, later sections have not. His text provides both an overview and a critique of earlier historians, and supplies us with a large number of unique documents, treaties, and intimate discussions that are not to be found elsewhere. This translation provides a continuous narrative from 1277 until the assassination of al-Malik al-Ashraf in 1293, with selections from Ibn al-Furat's later entries concerning the Crusades until 1365.

Author : Translated By David Cook
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 9781032237565
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Baybars' Successors written by Translated By David Cook and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-12-13 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ibn al-Furat (d. 1405) is an understudied Mamluk historian, whose materials for the period of the later Crusades is unique. This translation provides a continuous narrative from 1277 until the assassination of al-Malik al-Ashraf in 1293.

Author : Paul M. Cobb
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190614463
Total Pages : 358 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Race for Paradise written by Paul M. Cobb and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016-09 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In The Race for Paradise, Paul M. Cobb offers an accurate and accessible representation of the Islamic experience of the Crusades during the Middle Ages. Cobb overturns previous claims and presents new arguments, such as the idea that the Frankish invasions of the Near East were something of a side-show to the broader internal conflict between Sunnis and Shi'ites in the region. The Race for Paradise moves along two fronts as Cobb stresses that, for medieval Muslims, the contemporaneous Latin Christian expansion throughout the Mediterranean was seen as closely linked to events in the Levant. As a consequence of this expanded geographical range, the book takes a broader chronological range to encompass the campaigns of Spanish kings north of the Ebro and the Norman conquest of Sicily (beginning in 1060), well before Pope Urban II's famous call to the First Crusade in 1095. Finally, The Race for Paradise brilliantly combats the trend to portray the history of the Crusades, particularly the Islamic experience, in simplistic or binary terms. Muslims did not solely experience the Crusades as fanatical warriors or as helpless victims, Cobb writes; as with any other human experience of similar magnitude, the Crusades were experienced in a great variety of ways, ranging from heroic martyrdom, to collaboration, to utter indifference"--

Author : Winslow Williams Clifford
Publisher : V&R Unipress
ISBN 13 : 3847000918
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book State formation and the structure of politics in Mamluk Syro-Egypt, 648–741 A.H./1250–1340 C.E. written by Winslow Williams Clifford and published by V&R Unipress. This book was released on 2013-02-19 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winslow Williams Clifford ist einer der wenigen Historiker, die sich bisher auf der Basis von theoretischen Ansätzen der Geschichte und Kultur des sogenannten Mamlukensultanates (1250–1517) gewidmet haben. In diesem Band erscheint nun posthum seine 1995 an der University of Chicago eingereichte Dissertation. Durch die geschickte Benutzung gesellschaftstheoretischer Ansätze gelingt es Clifford, sehr überzeugend zu zeigen, dass der mamlukische Herrschaftsverbund – wie lange Zeit behauptet – keine statische »Orientalische Despotie« darstellte, sondern im Gegenteil eine sehr ausdifferenzierte Gesellschaft war. Sie fußte vor allem auf der Einhaltung eines komplexen Ordnungssystems, das sich während der Herrschaft der ersten Sultane etabliert hatte.

Author : Malcolm Lambert
Publisher : Profile Books
ISBN 13 : 1847659276
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Crusade and Jihad written by Malcolm Lambert and published by Profile Books. This book was released on 2016-04-21 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Malcolm Lambert investigates the histories of Christianity and Islam to trace the origins and development of crusade and jihad. In a narrative that brims with larger than life characters - among them, Richard Lionheart, Nur al-Din, Saladin, Baybars and Ghengiz Khan - he describes the fiercely fought struggles to control the sacred places of the Middle East between the seventh and thirteenth centuries. Crusade and jihad are often reckoned two sides of the same coin but this simple opposition, the author shows, conceals crucial differences and similarities. From the outset jihad reflected tensions within as much as outside Islam. Jihad also described the struggle between good and evil in the souls of believers. Calls for crusade and jihad disguised ambitions for power and plunder, but they also equally inspired acts of chivalry and heroism. Malcolm Lambert then moves to the more recent history of jihad and crusade. In nineteenth-century France he finds imperialism configured as a crusade to enlighten the barbarians. Meanwhile in Britain one of the crusading orders transformed itself into the St John Ambulance Brigade. More recently in the USA crusade has been evoked in the war on terror while jihad is now the rallying cry for Islamic extremists round the world. Yet, Dr Lambert notes, it still retains its peaceful spiritual dimension. Crusade and Jihad is a vivid, balanced account of two of the most powerful forces of history.

Author : Gowaart Van Den Bossche
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110753022
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Literary Spectacles of Sultanship written by Gowaart Van Den Bossche and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2023-09-18 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The so-called Mamluk sultans who ruled Egypt and Syria between the late thirteenth and early sixteenth centuries AD have often been portrayed as lacking in legitimacy due to their background as slave soldiers. Sultanic biographies written by chancery officials in the early period of the sultanate have been read as part of an effort of these sultans to legitimise their position on the throne. This book reconsiders the main corpus of six such biographies written by the historians Ibn ʿAbd al-Ẓāhir (d. 1293) and his nephew Shāfiʿ ibn ʿAlī (d. 1330) and argues that these were in fact far more complex texts. An understanding of their discourses of legitimisation needs to be embedded within a broader understanding of the multi-directional discourses operating across the texts. The study proposes to interpret these texts as "spectacles", in which authors emplotted the reign of a sultan in thoroughly literary and rhetorical fashion, making especially extensive use of textual forms prevalent in the chancery. In doing so the authors reimagined the format of the biography as a performative vehicle for displaying their literary credentials and helping them negotiate positions in the chancery and the wider courtly orbit.

Author : Angus Donal Stewart
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004475761
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Armenian Kingdom and the Mamluks written by Angus Donal Stewart and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-10-01 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume gives an in-depth account of the relations between the Mamluk Sultanate of Egypt and Syria and the Armenian Kingdom, centred on Cilicia in southern Asia Minor, in the period after the collapse of the Crusader States. As well as diplomatic encounters, the work describes in detail, for example, the course of the Mamluk invasions of Cilicia, and the Armenian involvement with the Mongol invasions of Mamluk Syria. The work is substantially based on sources written in Arabic in the Mamluk Sultanate. Using them in conjuction with more 'pro-Armenian' sources, it demonstrates the value of these Arabic histories, which provide many new insights and details. Both in its subject, and in its use of sources, this work demonstrates an important new direction for scholars of the Middle East.

Author : Alexander Mallett
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004690123
Total Pages : 285 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Arabic Textual Sources for the Crusades written by Alexander Mallett and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2024-03-11 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Building upon previous volumes by the same editor, this book contains studies of nine of the most important writers of Arabic-language textual sources for the Crusades and the Frankish presence in the eastern Mediterranean in the period 1097-1291.