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by Carole Hillenbrand


  Mu’īn aİ-Dīn Ünür, 23, 290

  difference in Franks, 334

  al-Muhadhdhab Abū Sa’īd, medicine and, 354

  Muhammad (Seljuq sultan), 21, 38, 78, 79, 80

  sapping, 531

  mujāhidun volunteers, 104

  al-Muqaddasī (Arab writer, geographer), 103, 149, 162, 286

  ships and, 560

  muqarnas dome

  Damascus, Syria, 119–20(plates)

  interior, Damascus, Syria, 122(plate), colour plate 14

  Muqātil, 162

  al-Muqtadī (‘Abbāsid Sunni caliph), 19, 33

  musicians

  Cappella Palatina, Palermo, Sicily, 138(fig.), 392(fig.)

  Fāţimid ivory carving, 139(fig.)

  Muslims

  armies

  campaigns, 516–18

  composition of, 439–50

  attitudes to Franks, 273–4

  on Baldwin, 341, 336

  on Bohemond VI, 341–2

  border with nomadic Turks, 100–1

  Byzantium and, 101–3

  on caliphate, 319–20

  castles, 493–8

  chivalric values and, 355–7

  chroniclers, on Saladin’s jihād, 180–3

  on Conrad of Montferrat, 343–4

  conversion amongst, 375–8

  correspondence, 320

  cross as symbol of misfortune, 306

  on Crusader fleets, 565–7

  on Crusader religious orders, 334–6

  and Crusades as phenomenon, 590–2

  cultural exchange with Franks, 381–91

  disunity, 76

  effect of Crusades on Oriental Christians, 410–11

  fate under Crusader rule, 357–70

  folk hero, 264(fig.)

  fortifications, 473–7

  First Crusade, 50–6

  and Franks, see Franks, Muslims and

  on Frederick II, 337–40

  on Guy II, 342

  India and, 250

  Jerusalem and, 141–50

  knowledge of Christianity, 308–10

  on Manfred, 340–1

  military manuals of, 435–8

  military strategy, 511–16

  monuments and, 370–2

  Crusader handiwork in, 382–6

  navy and, 564, 574–5

  neglect of cemeteries, 361–2

  Oriental Christians and, 407–8

  on Papacy, 319–20

  poetry, Frankish stereotypes and, 297

  prisoners, in Frankish captivity, 549–52

  propaganda about Christianity, 310–14

  on Raymond of Tripoli, 342–3

  reactions to coming of Franks, 31–84

  reactions to Crusades, 20–2

  religious building appropriation and, 372–5

  religious dimension in attitude to Franks, 282–3

  on Reynald of Chatillon, 344–7

  on Reynald of Sidon, 343

  on Richard the Lionheart, 336

  seafaring and, 558–9

  sieges and, 533–40

  sources

  accessibility of, 10

  for First Crusade, 32

  nature of, 9–10

  warfare and, 432–3

  on St Louis, 336–7

  stereotypes of Franks, 257–322

  under Frankish rule, 378–80

  Muslim-Crusader contact, longterm effects, 391–419

  Muslim-Christian relations, 419

  al-Musta’lī (son of al-Mustansir), 43

  al-Mustanşir (Fāţimid caliph of Egypt), 19, 33, 43

  death of, 76

  al-Mustarshid, caliph, role in jihād, 104

  al-Mustazhir (caliph of Baghdad), 79

  al-Mutanabbī (poet), 102

  al-Mutawakkil (‘Abbāsid caliph), 410

  al-Nabhānī, Shaykh Taqī al-Dīn, 603

  Nablus, 364

  Frankish justice, 365

  Muslims under Crusader rule, 359–61

  najāsāt (things impure), 285

  Najm al-Dīn al-Rammāh, military manuals and, 438

  Najm al-Dīn Ayyūb (Ayyūbid sultan), 222

  Frankish prisoners in captivity, 556

  Oriental Christians and, 416

  Nāşir al-Dīn Qūnawī, 409

  al-Nāsir Dā’ūd (ruler of Karak), 222, 223

  Nāşir-i Khusraw, 48–9

  Jerusalem and, 147–8

  naval dimension, 556–77

  navigation, naval dimension, 557

  navy

  Baybars and, 571–2

  Fāţimids and, 562–4

  Mamlūks and, 571, 572–3

  Muslim neglect of, 561–2

  Muslims and, 564

  Saladin, 567–9

  al-Nawawī, Oriental Christians and, 415–16

  Nazareth, 26

  Nāzik al-Malā’ika, 606

  Near East, Twelfth century, map, 173(fig.)

  Nicaea (Iznik), 18

  Night Journey, of Prophet Muhammad, 149–50

  Nizām al-Mulk (Seljuq wazīr), 19, 33, 439, 442–4

  arms and, 464–5

  death of, 38

  spies and, 548

  Nizārī schism, 43–4

  nomadic Turks, Muslim border with, 100–1

  Numayr, Banū, Muslim castles and, 496

  Nūr al-Dīn, 116, 593

  architecture of, 386–7

  career of, 117–18

  comparison with Saladin, 193–5

  Frankish leaders and, 346–7

  funerary madrasa of, Damascus, 119–21(plates), Great Mosque of, Himş, Syria, 91(plate)

  courtyard, 92(plate), 93(plate)

  mihrāb, 96(plate)

  minbar, 95(plate)

  heritage of, 174

  on Jerusalem, 150, 151

  jihād

  after death of, 171–251

  as defensive, 246

  literature of, 161–6

  māristān, see māristān of Nur al-Din, Damascus, Syria

  military manuals and, 516

  minbar in Aqsā mosque, 151–61

  Muslim castles, 495

  Muslim fortifications, 474, 480, 483, 484

  navy and, 563, 564

  pigeons and, 548

  recognition of, 5

  religious classes and, 119–32

  religious dimensions of, 118–19

  Second Crusade and, 22–3

  swords and, 455

  written sources, 132–41

  Nūrī mosque, Mosul, see Jāmi‘ al-Nūrī, Mosul al-Nuwayrī (Mamluk historian), 54

  Muslim fortifications, 478

  al-Nuwayrī (Muhammad al-Iskandarānī), Oriental Christians and, 417–18

  ‘Other’, image of the, 303–4

  official letters, 320

  Old Man of the Mountain, language barrier and, 333

  Oriental Christians, 407–18

  effect of Crusades on, 410–11

  in First Crusade, 68

  Muslim treatment of, 407–8

  ‘Parthian’ shot, archery, 512

  Pagan the Butler, Frankish fortifications and, 471

  Palestine, 602, 605

  Fāţimid involvement in, 44–7

  fortifications and, 469

  jihād in, 103

  on eve of First Crusade, 48–50

  Papacy, Muslims on, 319–20

  penthouses, 526–7

  People of the Book, pre-Crusading period, 408–10

  Philip II of France, navy and, 569

  Pierre I of Lusignan, Oriental Christians and, 417–18

  pigeons, in war, 547–8

  pilgrims, 366

  caravan of, Baghdad, Iraq, 292(fig.)

  Frankish threat to, 291–3

  plague, 37–8

  plunder, 514

  poetry, 69–71, 102, 179–80, 240

  Frankish stereotypes and, 297

  on jihād, 166

  Pope, and Muslim knowledge of Christianity, 309

  population, displac
ement of, 74–6

  postal routes, at Baybars’ death, 547(fig.)

  postal service, in war, 546

  Pratelles, William de, language barrier and, 332

  prayer, in jihād, 165

  pre-Crusades

  Frankish stereotypes in, 267–71

  historical overview, 15–20

  jihād realities in, 100

  preaching, jihād and, 223–4

  prisoners, treatment of, 549–56

  Profession of Faith, The (Ibn Baţţa), 179

  propaganda

  in Counter Crusade, 150–61

  of jihād in time of Saladin, 175–80

  Muslim correspondence, 320

  Saladin and, 316–17

  Prophet Muhammad, Night Journey of, 149–50

  Ptolemy, 269

  purification, of Islamic space, 298–301

  purity, 284

  qabaq, 448

  Qaddafi, Colonel, 609

  al-Qādī al-Fādil (adviser of Saladin), 171, 183, 184, 185, 192, 295,316,317–18

  cross and, 306–7

  Frankish Christianity, 321

  Frankish leaders, 343

  Muslim knowledge of Christianity, 310

  al-Qādisiyya, 191

  Qal‘at al-Najm, Syria, 495, 498(plate), 522–3(plates), 525–6(plates)

  Qal‘at Ja’bar, 495–6, 499–500(plates)

  Qal‘at Subayba, 496–8

  Qalāwūn (Mamluk sultan), 29, 244

  Crusader-Muslim contact, 392

  Marqab and, 539

  navy and, 574

  al-Qalqashandī, 232

  Muslim knowledge of Christianity, 310

  Qaşr al-Ablaq citadel, 27(fig.)

  al-Qazwīnī (Muslim encyclopaedist, geographer), 37, 271–2

  swords and, 455

  Qilij Arslān (Seljuq ruler), 20, 41, 54–5

  Qilij Arslān II, 350

  Qudāma, Banū (family), 99

  al-Quhwāna (al-Uqhuwāna), battle of, 545

  Qur’ān

  cross and, 5–6

  jihād and, 89–92

  Quţb, Sayyid, writings of, 600–2

  al-Quţbī, Sukmān, 79

  al-Raba’ī (writer), 162–3, 175–9

  raids, 544–5

  Ramla, 75

  battle of, 444

  rape, Franks and, 298

  Rashīd al-Dīn (writer), sieges and, 533

  al-Rāshid, (caliph), role in jihād, 104

  rawda, definition of, 193

  Raymond of Antioch, 134

  Raymond of Tripoli

  language barrier and, 333

  Muslims on, 342–3

  Recueil des historiens des Croisades, 14

  refugee movements, 75

  Muslims under Crusader rule, 358–61

  religion/religious

  buildings

  Frankish, 285–6

  Muslim appropriation, 372–5

  classes

  jihād in early Mamlūk period, 237–8

  Nūr al-Dīn and, 119–32

  dimension, in attitude to Franks, 282–3

  monuments

  appropriation of, 370–5

  destruction of, 380–1

  Nūr al-Dīn and, 122

  orders, Muslims on, 334–6

  schism, 33–6, 47

  Reynald of Chatillon, 172, 237, 293, 296, 598

  Crusader fleets and, 565

  Muslims on, 344–7

  Reynald of Sidon, Muslims on, 343

  ribāţ, definition of, 100

  Richard the Lionheart, 310, 336, 550

  Jerusalem, 192

  language barrier, 332

  navy, 569

  Ridwān (Seljuq prince), 79, 80, 82, 116,411

  Oriental Christians and, 413

  Right Answer to Those who Alter the Religion of the Messiah (Ibn Taymiyya), Frankish Christianity and, 312

  rockets, 528

  Roger of Antioch, 22, 80, 81, 109–10

  rulers, correspondence and, 320

  Rūm (Byzantium), 18

  al-Rumaylī (hadīth scholar), 66, 163

  ‘Scythian’ method, archery, 512

  sacred space, Franks and, 284–5

  Şafad, citadel of, 231

  sieges and, 533

  Şalμh (al-Bukhārī), 238

  Śaĥyūn (Qal‘at Salāh al-Dīn)

  fortifications and, 470

  Muslim views on, 471–2

  siege of, 535–6

  St Anne, church of, 331

  St Gilles, Holy Lance and, 314

  St Louis, king of France

  Frankish prisoners in captivity, 553

  Muslims on, 336–7

  naval dimension and, 559

  Saladin (Şalāh al-Dīn b. Ayyūb), 23–4, 118, 224, 298, 299

  anti-Christian propaganda and, 314–16

  appropriation of monuments, 372

  armour and, 463

  army of, 444–5

  career of, 171–2

  comparison with Nūr al-Dīn, 193–5

  correspondence, 320

  cross-breaking and, 305

  Crusader fleets and, 566

  Crusader religious orders, 335

  Crusader-Muslim contact, 399, 401

  in Damascus, 213

  death of, 201, 248

  destruction of religious monuments, 380

  Dome of the Rock and, 289

  fals of, 23(plate), 172(plate)

  Franks, 265, 321, 342

  Holy Land, 302

  illness of, 183

  Jerusalem and, 141, 188–92

  jihād

  as defensive, 246

  in modern scholarship, 185–6

  propaganda and, 175–80

  magnanimity of, 316–17

  mangonels and, 524

  mausoleum of, Damascus, Syria, 187(plate), 188(fig.)

  medieval Muslim chroniclers on jihād, 180–3

  military manuals and, 515–16

  minbar and, 156–7

  Muslim fortifications, 476–80

  Muslim navy and, 575–6

  as myth, 592–600

  navy and, 559, 567–9

  strategy, 569–70

  personal jihād of, 183

  raids and, 545

  Second Crusade and, 23

  sieges and, 530, 534–6

  statue of, Damascus, 6–7(plates), 596–9(plates)

  Usāma and, 260

  al-Şalāhiyya madrasa, religious building appropriation and, 373

  al-Şālih, al-Malik Najm al-Dīn Ayyūb (Ayyūbid sultan), 201, 203, 222

  Ayyūbid metalwork, 388

  Frankish leaders and, 337

  Frankish prisoners in captivity, 556

  navy and, 568

  al-Şālih, al-Malik (son of Nūr aİ-Dīn), 184

  al-Şālihiyya, Muslims under Crusader rule, 359–61

  saltpetre, 528

  Sana al-barq al-shamī (‘Imād al-Dīn), 155

  al-Sannabra, bridge of, 305

  sappers/sapping, 530–2

  saiissa, lance and, 452

  al-Sayed, ‘Abdallāh, 598–600

  Sayf al-Dīn Ghāzī (son of Zengi), 101, 102–3, 334

  schism

  Nizārī, 43–4

  religious, 33–6, 47

  Scott, Sir Walter, 593

  Sea of Precious Virtues, 161

  Frankish Christianity and, 313

  sea, Muslims and, 558–9

  Second Crusade, 334

  coming of, 116–17

  Nūr al-Dīn and, 22–3

  Selection of Time amongst the Marvels of Land and Sea (Nukhbat al-dahr fīʼnjā’ib al-barr wa ‘l-bahr) (al-Dimishqī), 273

  Seljuqs, 201

  armies, 440–1

  disunity, 38–40

  bowl, warfare and, 542–4

  response to First Crusade, 78–81

  Sunnis, 36

  Turks, Sunni Islam and, 17

  sermons, in jihād, 165

  sexual laxity, in Franks, 274–
82

  shahada (Muslim creed), 605

  Shams al-Khilāfa (governor of Ascalon), Crusader-Muslim contact, 396

  Shari‘a

  evolution of, 409

  jihād, 95

  Shāwār, Fāţimid vizier, 117–18

  Shawbak, 292

  Shawqī, Ahmad (poet), 593

  Shaykh Khādir, Oriental Christians and, 416

  Shaykh Qayşar b. Abi’l-Qāsim, Frankish leaders and, 339

  Shī’ite Ismā’īlī Fāţimid imāms, 94

  shields, 458–9

  ships, types of, 559–61

  al-Shīrāzī (legal scholar), 409

  Shīrkūh (Kurdish commander), 117

  Second Crusade and, 23

  Sibt b. al-Jawzī (historian), 215, 221–2, 223–4, 303–4, 305, 306

  minbar and, 156–7

  Sidon, 29, 334

  fortifications and, 469

  sieges

  conduct, 529–33

  defenders, 532

  towers, 526–7

  warfare, 521–33

  navy link with, 573–4

  weapons, 523–9

  Sīrat al-amīra Dhāt al-Himma (folk epic), 102, 265–6

  images and, 308

  Sīrat Baybars (folk epic), 230

  Muslim navy and, 574

  Sivan, Emmanuel, 103–4,108, 114, 238

  Frankish Christianity, 321

  Frankish stereotypes, 263

  Jerusalem, 150

  theories of, 248–50

  slave troops, 443–4

  Spain, fate under Crusader rule, 358

  spies, 548–9

  spiritual jihād (Greater Jihad), 97

  Splendid Chronicle of the Atābegs of Mosul, The (Ibn al-Athīr), 194

  splint armour, Turkish foot-soldiers, 461 (plate) stone tympanum, horseman, 19(plate)

  strategy, in military engagements, 514–15

  Sudanis, Fāţimid armies and, 444

  Şūfīs

  Frankish Christianity and, 313

  literature, 161–2

  Muslim knowledge of Christianity, 309

  Sufyān al-Thawrī (Sufi mystic), 148

  al-Sulamī (Syrian legist), 32, 69, 105–8, 109, 165

  conduct of war, 580

  Frankish Christianity, 321

  navy, 561

  Sulaymān b. Qutlumush, 18

  Sunni Islam

  caliph, Baghdad, 104

  Fāţimids and, 17

  Nūr al-Dīn and, 122

  Seljuq Turks and, 17

  swimmers, in war, 546

  swords, 453–5

  Islamic, 454(plate)

  Syria, 364

  Assassins in, 76

  Fāţimid involvement in, 44–7

  on eve of First Crusade, 48–50

  fortifications and, 469

  jihād in, 103

  response, First Crusade, 81–3

  unification of, 132

  ţabar, 456

  al-Ţabarī, 162

  table, Qalāwūn complex, Cairo, 295(fig.)

  Ţalabānī, Shaykh Ridā, 594

  Talā’i’ b. Ruzzik (Fatimid vizier), 138

  Tale of ‘Umar ibn Nu ‘man, 296 ‘Frankish filth’ in, 294

  Talisman Gate, Baghdad, Iraq, 211(fig.)

  Tancred, 82, 363

  chivalric values and, 357

  Taqī al-Dīn ‘Umar (nephew of Saladin), 299

 

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