Medieval Syria and the Onset of the Crusades
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Aleppo
Author_James Wilson
autonomous lordships
bilad al-sham
Byzantine Empire
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Crusades
diplomacy
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ethno-cultural studies
Fatimid Empire
Fatimids
medieval history
medieval Syria
Middle Eastern history
regional power dynamics
Seljuqs
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- ISBN 9781399503181
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 28 Feb 2025
- Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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Between 1050 and 1128 the nomadic Seljuq Turks and European Crusaders subjected northern Syria to a series of invasions from the east and west. The migration of militant peoples from the Eurasian Steppe and Western Europe inserted a new set of political elites into a complex frontier zone already beset by numerous conflicts fought along several ethno-cultural and religious contours. Surveying this turbulent chapter of Syrian history from multiple perspectives, this book recalibrates the underlying power dynamics of the late eleventh and early twelfth centuries. Through this regional focus, it reassesses both the impact that the establishment of Turkish and Crusader lordships had upon bilad al-sham (Greater Syria) and the reactions of Syria's established ruling elite to this unprecedented sequence of events.
Providing a unique reinterpretation of the political situation in bilad al-sham during one of the most important periods in Middle Eastern history, this book proposes a new model for understanding the political dynasties of this period and questions the significance ascribed to the establishment of the Crusader States by modern historians.
James Wilson is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Zukunftskolleg and Department of History and Sociology at the University of Konstanz. He has published one book, Medieval Syria and the Onset of the Crusades: The Political World of Bilad al-Sham 1050-1128 (EUP, 2023), and journal articles in Crusades, Transmediterranean History, Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society and Al-Masāq: Journal of the Medieval Mediterranean.
