ACLS Humanities E-Book: An Arab-Syrian gentleman and warrior in the period of the Crusades: memoirs of Usāmah ibn-Munqidh (Kitāb al-Iʻtibār)

An Arab-Syrian gentleman and warrior in the period of the Crusades: memoirs of Usāmah ibn-Munqidh (Kitāb al-Iʻtibār)

Usāmah ibn Munqidh, 1095-1188., Hitti, Philip Khuri, 1886-1978.

Year: c2000.

Publisher: Columbia University Press.

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Frontmatter

FOREWORD

PREFACE

INTRODUCTION

SECTION I WARS, TRAVELS AND OTHER EXPERIENCES

1. FIGHTING AGAINST THE FRANKS

2. USĀMAH'S FIRST SOJOURN IN DAMASCUS, 1138‐1144 A.D.

3. US‐MAH IN EGYPT, 1144‐1154 A.D.

4. US‐MAH'S SECOND SOJOURN IN DAMASCUS, 1154‐1164 A.D.

5. BATTLES AGAINST FRANKS AND MOSLEMS

6. ADVENTURES WITH LIONS AND OTHER WILD ANIMALS

7. OTHER WAR EXPERIENCES

8. AN APPRECIATION OF THE FRANKISH CHARACTER

9. SUNDRY EXPERIENCES AND OBSERVATIONS

SECTION II RARE ANECDOTES

1. STORIES OF HOLY MEN

2. NOTEWORTHY CURES

SECTION III USĀMAH'S HUNTING EXPERIENCES

1. HUNTING IN SYRIA, MESOPOTAMIA AND EGYPT

2. USĀMAH'S FATHER AS A HUNTER

THE END OF THE BOOK

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Usāmah ibn Munqidh, 1095-1188; Hitti, Philip Khuri, 1886-1978

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An Arab-Syrian gentleman and warrior in the period of the Crusades : memoirs of Usāmah ibn-Munqidh (Kitāb al-Iʻtibār) / translated from the original manuscript by Philip K. Hitti ; with a new foreword by Richard W. Bulliet.
Usāmah ibn Munqidh, 1095-1188, Hitti, Philip Khuri, 1886-1978
New York: Columbia University Press, c2000.

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Subject Headings:

• Usāmah ibn Munqidh, -- 1095-1188
• Crusades
• Crusades -- Personal narratives
• Syria -- History -- 750-1260

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