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Classical Islam
Crusades
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forthcoming
Islam
Jihad
Medieval History
Middle Eastern History
Mirrors for Princes
Prophet Muhammad
Saladin
Seljuq
Seljuq Turks
Sufism
Turkish Studies
Product details
- ISBN 9781474485913
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 31 Oct 2026
- Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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This volume collects 20 papers on the Crusades by one of the world’s leading experts on medieval Islamic history. The papers showcase multiple perspectives, especially as viewed from the Muslim side. The volume explores the distinctive nature of Islamic jihad as expressed in poetry, sermons and inscriptions; the development of the counter-crusade; and the careers of major Muslim leaders including Zengi and Saladin.
Carole Hillenbrand is Honorary Professorial Fellow, Professor Emerita at the University of Edinburgh and Professor of Islamic History at the University of St Andrews since 2013. In 2005 she became the first non-Muslim scholar to be awarded the prestigious King Faisal International Prize for Islamic Studies, reflecting her ‘revolutionary approach to the largely one-sided subject of the Crusades’. She is author of The Crusades (EUP, 1999), The Waning of the Umayyad Caliphate (Albany, 1989), A Muslim Principality in Crusader Times (Brill, 1990), and co-editor (with C. E. Bosworth) of Qajar Iran, (Edinburgh, 1984) and editor of The Sultan's Turret (Brill, 1999).
