Usama ibn Munqidh: “A Muslim View of the Crusaders”

Further Reading

Articles

• Cahen, Claude. “An Introduction to the First Crusade.” Past and Present 6 (November 1954): 6–30.
• Smail, R. C. “Latin Syria and the West, 1149–1187.” Transactions of the Royal Historical Society, fifth series, 19 (1969): 1–20.

Books

• Cobb, Paul. Usama ibn Munqidh: Warrior-Poet of the Age of Crusades. Oxford, U.K.: Oneworld, 2005.
• Gabrieli, Francesco. Arab Historians of the Crusades. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1969.
• Goss, Vladimir P., and Christine V. Bornstein, eds. The Meeting of Two Worlds: Cultural Exchange between East and West during the Period of the Crusades. Kalamazoo: Western Michigan University, 1986.
• Hillenbrand, Carole. The Crusades: Islamic Perspectives. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1999.
• Maalouf, Amin. The Crusades through Arab Eyes. New York: Schocken Books, 1985.

Web Sites

• Laiou, Angeliki E., and Roy P. Mottahedeh, eds. “The Crusades from the Perspective of Byzantium and the Muslim World.” Dumbarton Oaks Research Library Web site. http://www.doaks.org/publications/doaks_online_publications/CRcnts.html.
• Winder, Viola H. “Memories of a Muslim Prince.” Saudi Aramco World Web site. http://www.saudiaramcoworld.com/issue/197003/memories.of.a.muslim.prince.htm.