Alliances and treaties between Frankish and Muslim rulers in the Middle East
Subtitle: cross-cultural diplomacy in the period of the Crusades
By: by Michael A. Kohler ; translated by Peter M. Holt ; revised, edited and introduced by Konrad Hirschler
Contributors: Holt, P. M. (Peter Malcolm); Hirschler, Konrad
Series: The Muslim world in the age of the Crusades -- v. 1
Publisher: Brill; BRILL
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Leiden; Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 368
ISBN-13: 9789004248571; 9789004248908
Subjects: Crusades; Foreign relations; History
Description: "In Alliances and Treaties between Frankish and Muslim Rulers Michael Köhler 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"--Back cover.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [325]-343) and index.