5 ‘Abominable Acts’: The Career of Zengi

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. List of Figures vii
4. Acknowledgements x
5. Preface xi
6. 1 Some Medieval Islamic Approaches to Source Material: The Evidence of a Twelfth-century Chronicle 1
7. 2 A Neglected Episode of the Reconquista: A Christian Success in the Second Crusade 34
8. 3 Jihad Propaganda in Syria from the Time of the First Crusade until the Death of Zengi: The Evidence of Monumental Inscriptions 44
9. 4 The First Crusade: The Muslim Perspective 54
10. 5 ‘Abominable Acts’: The Career of Zengi 66
11. 6 Sultanates: Ayyubids 89
12. 7 Some Reflections on the Imprisonment of Reynald of Châtillon 93
13. 8 Some Reflections on the Use of the Qur’an in Monumental Inscriptions in Syria and Palestine in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries 118
14. 9 The Legacy of the Crusades 132
15. 10 The Evolution of the Saladin Legend in the West 149
16. 11 Ayyubids 165
17. 12 Ayyubid Jerusalem: A Historical Introduction 175
18. 13 Jihad Poetry in the Age of the Crusades 231
19. 14 The Shi‘is of Aleppo in the Zengid Period: Some Unexploited Textual and Epigraphic Evidence 247
20. 15 A Short History of Jihad 269
21. 16 Muslim Jerusalem, the Crusades and the Career of Saladin 287
22. 17 The Holy Land in the Crusader and Ayyubid Periods, 1099–1250 295
23. 18 The Assassins in Fact and Fiction: The Old Man of the Mountain 334
24. 19 Saladin’s ‘Spin Doctors’ 352
25. 20 The Sultan, the Kaiser, the Colonel and the Purloined Wreath 367
26. Original Sources of the Items in This Volume 381
27. Index 383