Alliances and treaties between Frankish and Muslim rulers in the Middle East : cross-cultural diplomacy in the period of the Crusades
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Alliances and treaties between Frankish and Muslim rulers in the Middle East : cross-cultural diplomacy in the period of the Crusades
(The Muslim world in the age of the Crusades / edited by Suleiman A. Mourad, Paul M. Cobb, Konrad Hirschler, v. 1)
Brill, 2013
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [325]-343) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
In Alliances and Treaties between Frankish and Muslim Rulers Michael Koehler presents a fully integrated study of Frankish-Muslim diplomacy in the period from the First Crusade through to the thirteenth century. It is a ground-breaking study that challenges preconceived notions of the relations between Frankish and Muslim rulers in the Middle East. Commonly portrayed as an era of conflict, the period appears here as one in which conventions of diplomatic cooperation were commonplace. This book is one of the few works in the fields of Crusader Studies and Middle Eastern Studies that draws to the same extent on Arabic and Western sources; two textual traditions that have usually been studied in isolation from each other.
Table of Contents
Author's preface to the English translation
Preface
Introduction
I The development of the Syrian system of autonomous lordships (c.1070-1099)
The system of autonomous lordships before the First Crusade (c.1070-1099)
Frankish-Muslim alliances and treaties during the First Crusade (1097-99)
II Relations between the Frankish, Turkish and Arab states in the period of the Syrian autonomous lordships (1098-1158)
The territorial expansion of the Frankish lordships and their integration (1098-1112/13)
The paradigm of the 'counter-Crusade': The Syrian lordships and the advance of Turkish allied armies from the east (1098-1128)
Syrian alliance politics from the expansion of the Zengid dominions to the Frankish-Byzantine rapprochement (1128-58)
III Frankish-Muslim relations in the period of Nur al-Din and Saladin (1158-92)
The expansion of the 'no place' doctrine and Frankish policy towards Egypt and Byzantium (1158-74)
Franks, Zengids and Nizaris: The Syrian lordships confronting the expansion of the Ayyubid dominions (1174-83)
Between treaty policy and confrontation, subordination and jihad: Frankish-Ayyubid relations from the peak of the party disputes in Jerusalem to the end of Saladin's life (1184-93)
A glance at Frankish-Muslim relations in the thirteenth century
IV Instruments and implications of Frankish-Muslim legal relations in the Middle East during the twelfth and thirteenth centuries
Technicalities and validity of Frankish-Muslim treaties in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries
The formation and function of Muslim-Frankish condominia (munasafat) in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries
Conclusions
Bibliography
Index
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