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Carole Hillenbrand's book offers a profound understanding of the history of Muslims and their faith, from the life of Muhammad to the religion practised by 1.6 billion people around the world today. Each of the eleven chapters explains a core aspect of the faith in historical perspective, allowing readers to gain a sensitive understanding of the essential tenets of the religion and of the many ways in which the present is shaped by the past. It is an ideal introductory text for courses in Middle Eastern studies, in religious studies, or on Islam and its history.
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This volume collects 24 papers on the medieval Turks by one of the world's leading experts on medieval Islamic history. It covers themes such as nomadism, shamanism, clan and social structure, the role of women, military expertise, engagement with Islamic orthodoxy and the daily interface between Turks and non-Turks.
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This volume collects 20 papers on the Crusades by one of the world's leading experts on medieval Islamic history. It explores the distinctive nature of Islamic jihad as expressed in poetry, sermons and inscriptions; the development of the counter-crusade; and the careers of major Muslim leaders including Zengi and Saladin.
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This volume collects 21 papers on Classical Islam by one of the world's leading experts on medieval Islamic history. The papers explore career of the Prophet Muhammad and the environment from which he sprang; the evolution of Islamic mysticism; political thought; and philosophical themes.
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• List of Illustrations
• Comment on Transliteration
• Part 1: Medieval Muslim interpretations of the battle
• Chapter 1: Introduction
• Chapter 2: The twelfth -century sources for the battle of Manzikert
• Chapter 3: The thirteenth-century sources for the battle of Manzikert
• Chapter 4: The fourteenth-century sources for the battle of Manzikert
• Chapter 5: Writing the battle
• Part 2: The legacy of the battle
• Chapter 6: The Islamic legacy of Manzikert - the ongoing Muslim-Christian confrontation
• Chapter 7: The heritage of Manzikert: the myth of national identity
• Appendix
• Bibliography.
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Turks ruled the Middle East for a millennium and eastern Europe for many centuries and it is an undoubted fact that they moulded the lands under their dominion. It is therefore something of a paradox that the history of Turkey and aspects of the identity and role of the Turks, both as Muslims and as an ethnic group, still remain little known in the west and undervalued in the Arabic and Persian-speaking worlds. This book contributes to historical scholarship on Turkey by focusing on its key foundational myth, the battle of Manzikert in 1071 -- the Turkish equivalent of the battle of Hastings. Manzikert destroyed the hold of Christian Byzantium on eastern Turkey and opened the whole country to the spread of Islam, a process completed with the fall of Constantinople and Trebizond some four centuries later. Translations and a close analysis of all the extant Muslim sources -- both Arabic and Persian -- which deal with the battle of Manzikert are provided in the book.It also looks at these writings as literary works and vehicles of religious ideology and analyses the ongoing confrontation between the Muslim Turks and Christian Europe and the importance of Manzikert in the formation of the modern state of Turkey since 1923.
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• The first crusade - the Muslim reaction
• Jihad - the evolution of propaganda, 1100-1174
• Jihad - military success, 1174-1291
• Muslims and crusaders - the ideological divide
• Muslims and crusaders - social and cultural relations
• warfare - technology, strategy, theory and practice
• epilogue - the heritage of the crusades.
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At the 900th anniversary of the Crusader capture of Jerusalem, it is timely to reflect on how the phenomenon of the Crusades influenced the Muslim world, then and now, militarily, culturally and psychologically. This book discusses a group of themes designed to highlight how Muslims reacted to the alien presence of the Crusaders in the heart of traditional Muslim territory. Ideological concerns are examined and the importance of the jihad is assessed in the context of the gradual recovery of the Holy Land and the expulsion of the Crusaders. Two chapters are devoted to an analysis of warfare - arms, battles, sieges, fortifications - on the basis of written sources and extant works of art, and the neglected aspect of the navy is brought into prominence. One chapter deals with the complex issue of the interaction between Muslims and Crusaders in a social, economic and cultural setting. The epilogue traces in outline the profound impact of the Crusades on Muslim consciousness until the present day. This is not a chronological survey of the events of the period 1099 to 1291and even beyond, for that has already been done several times.Instead, this is a general book intended to introduce some of the wider aspects of the history of the Crusades from the Muslim side. Accordingly, as a deliberate policy, an attempt is made here to view the phenomenon of the Crusades entirely through the prism of medieval Muslim sources. This naturally involves bias, but such a bias is salutary given the cumulative impact of centuries of Eurocentric scholarship in this field and it should help to create a more balanced picture of this fascinating and momentous period of Christian/Muslim confrontation and interaction.
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This commemorative volume discusses aspects of the life and work of the internationally famous scholar Professor W. Montgomery Watt (1909-2006). His writings on Islam and on Muslim-Christian relations gained him great prestige and respect, not only in the West but also - and perhaps more significantly - right across the Muslim world. The book includes contributions by Professor Carole Hillenbrand, Professor Fred Donner, Bishop Richard Holloway and the late Professor David Kerr, as well as substantial excerpts from Professor Watt's unpublished writings, copies of which he entrusted to Professor Hillenbrand.
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Presenting numerous interconnected insights into life in Greater Syria in the twelfth century, this book covers a wide range of themes relating to Crusader-Muslim relations. Some chapters deal with various literary sources, including little-known Crusader chronicles, a jihad treatise, a lost Muslim history of the Franks, biographies, letters and poems. Other chapters look at material culture, from coins to urban development, internal relations between Sunni and Shi'ite Muslims and between Crusader and Oriental Christians, and the role of the Turkmen. New insights into the career of Saladin are revealed, for example through the work of a little-known propagandist at his court, and Saladin's use of gift-giving for political purposes, as well as neglected aspects of the rule of his family dynasty, the Ayyubids, which succeeded him. Special attention is paid to the Christians residing in the Middle East, from Italians to Melkites and Armenians.
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The years 738-745/121-127, which this volume covers, saw the outbreak in Syria of savage internecine struggles between prominent members of the Umayyad family, which had ruled the Islamic world since 661/41. After the death of the caliph Hisham in 743-/125, the process of decay at the center of the Umayyad power--the ruling family itself--was swift and devastating. Three Umayyad caliphs (al-Walid II, Yazid III, and Ibrahim) followed Hisham within little more than a year, and the subsequent intervention of their distant cousin Marwan b. Muhammad (the future Marwan II) could not arrest the forces of opposition that were shortly to culminate in the 'Abbasid Revolution of 750/132. In this volume al-Tabari deals extensively with the end of Hisham's reign, providing a rich store of anecdotes on this most able of Umayyad caliphs. He also covers in depth the notorious lifestyle of al-Walid II, the libertine prince and poet, whose career has attracted much scholarly attention in recent years. Moreover, al-Tabari chronicles at great length the events of the rebellion and death of the Shi'ite pretender, Zayd b. 'Ali, at al-Kufah, as well as recording in detail the activities farther to the east, where Nasb. Sayyar was serving as the last Umayyad governor of Transoxiana and Khurasan, the very area from which the 'Abbasid Revolution was to spring. The text also contains several official letters which shed much light on Umayyad propaganda and on early Islamic epistolary style. The hindsight conferred by subsequent centuries highlights the full significance of these half-dozen years or so. Al-Tabari documents the incubation of the 'Abbasid Revolution, an event of great importance in world history, and traces the failure of the principal Shi'ite revolt of the eighth century, a debacle which was also to have serious repercussions, for it generated the foundation of Zaydi principalities in Iran and the Yemen. Yet even these major themes are secondary to the epic tale that al-Tabari unfolds of the tragic downfall of the first dynasty in Islam.

• Hamdan al-Atharibi's History of the Franks revisited, again / Paul M. Cobb
• Legitimate authority in the Kitab al-Jihad of 'Ali b. Tahir al-Sulami / Kenneth A. Goudie
• Politics, religion and the occult in the works of Kamal al-Din Ibn Talha, a vizier, 'Alim and author in thirteenth-century Syria / A.C.S. Peacock
• Adapting to Muslim rule : the Syrian Orthodox community in twelfth-century Northern Syria and the Jazira / R. Stephen Humphreys
• The afterlife of Edessa : Remembering Frankish rule, 1144 and after / Christopher MacEvitt
• Diplomatic relations and coinage among the Turcomans, the Ayyubids and the crusaders : Pragmatism and change of identity / Taef El-Azhari
• Symbolic conflict and cooperation in the neglected chronicle of a Syrian prince / Luke Yarbrough
• A critique of the scholarly outlook of the crusades : the case for tolerance and coexistence / Suleiman A. Mourad
• The portrayal of violence in Walter the Chancellor's Bella Antiochena / Thomas Asbridge
• Infernalising the enemy : Images of hell in Muslim descriptions of the Franks during the crusading period / Alex Mallett
• Sunnites et chiites a Alep sous le regne d' al-Salih Isma'il (569-77/1117 4-81) : entre conflits et reconciliations / Anne-Marie Edde
• The war of towers : Venice and Genoa at war in crusader Syria, 1256-8 / Thomas F. Madden
• Gaza in the Frankish and Ayyubid Periods : the run-up to 1260 CE / Reuven Amitai
• Picture-poems for Saladin : 'Abd al-Mun'im al-Jilyani's Mudabbajat / Julia Bray
• Ayyubid Realpolitik and political-military vicissitudes versus counter-crusading ideology in the memoirist-chronicler al-Katib al-Isfahani / Lutz Richter-Bernburg
• Assessing the evidence for a turning point in Ayyubid-Frankish relations in a letter by al-Qadi al-Fadil / Bogdan C Smarandache
• Saladin, generosity and gift-giving / Jonathan Phillips
• Hülegü : the New Constantine? / Angus Stewart

Presenting numerous interconnected insights into life in Greater Syria in the twelfth century, this book covers a wide range of themes relating to Crusader-Muslim relations. Some chapters deal with various literary sources, including little-known Crusader chronicles, a jihad treatise, a lost Muslim history of the Franks, biographies, letters and poems. Other chapters look at material culture, from coins to urban development, internal relations between Sunni and Shi'ite Muslims and between Crusader and Oriental Christians, and the role of the Turkmen. New insights into the career of Saladin are revealed, for example through the work of a little-known propagandist at his court, and Saladin's use of gift-giving for political purposes, as well as neglected aspects of the rule of his family dynasty, the Ayyubids, which succeeded him. Special attention is paid to the Christians residing in the Middle East, from Italians to Melkites and Armenians. -- Provided by publisher

• Introduction: The Concept and Unity of Islamic History
• Europe and Islam: The History of a Science
• Early studies of Islam in the context of religious war
• From confrontation to co-existence
• The beginnings of Islamic studies
• The rise of Oriental philology
• 'Historicism' and the opening up of the sources
• Islam as a Held of scholarship
• Research in Islam in East and West: encounter and conflict
• Islam: Religion and Legal System
• The Revelation
• The development of religious doctrine
• Law and government
• The Islamic World: Society and Economy
• Arabia: landscape arid history at the beginning of Islam
• Bedouins and sedentary peoples
• Apicultural economy, taxation and land tenure
• Urban society and economy
• A Regional View of Islamic History
• The Arabian peninsula
• Syria and Palestine
• Iraq
• The West
• Egypt
• Iran
• Anatolia
• The further lands of Islam
• Periods of Islamic History
• Arabia before Islam (until c.610 ad)
• Muhammad: the mission of the Arab Prophet and the first Islamic state (c.610-32)
• The caliphate until the end of the Umayyads (632-750)
• The caliphate of the 'Abbasids and its successor states from 749-c. 1050
• The Seljuq period (c. 1055-c. 1258)
• The Mongol period. From the conquest of Baghdad by the Mongols to the establishment of the Ottoman state in the Near East (1258-1517)
• The Ottoman period (16th-18th centuries)
• The emergence of national states Westernisation and reform (from the beginning of the 19th century)
• Appendix: Languages, Names and the Calendar of Islam
• Language and script
• Names and titles
• The Islamic calendar
• Chronological Table
• Bibliography.

Reviews of the first edition: "Students of Islam! will find it an invaluable and convenient source of information." Journal of Semitic Studies "A major reference tool for student and teacher for many years to come." Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society "This impressive book! is certain to be kept at the desk where lectures are written." Journal of the American Oriental Society "Endress presents an accurate picture of the interplay of religious inspiration and historical circumstances which shaped Islamic history from its inception! It reflects a distinct sensitivity to the nuances of the subject culture, combined with a clear command of the scholarly sources! It is therefore most appropriate for graduate students beginning a Middle East or Islamic specialization, for professional scholars with other specializations seeking a synoptic treatment of Islamic history, or for teachers in need of an outline for an Islamic survey course." MESA Bulletin This highly acclaimed survey provides a thoughtful and concise account of all aspects of Islam in history. Following an appraisal of the study of Islam, Gerhard Endress guides the reader through key elements: * Religion (including the Revelation of the prophet Muhammad and the development of doctrine in its historical setting) * Law and the state in medieval Islam * Social and economic aspects of medieval Islam * The historical development of each of the main regions of the Islamic world (the Arabian peninsula; Syria and Palestine; Iraq; Spain; North Africa; Egypt; Iran; Anatolia) * The principal trends and major periods of Islamic history * The development of Arabic, Persian and Turkish languages * Names and Titles * The Muslim calendar * A chronology of political and cultural events from the rise of Islam to the twentieth century Written in clear and accessible language, this is the essential introduction to Islamic history and culture. The new edition has been corrected and revised, and includes a fully updated bibliography.
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• Acknowledgements
• Professor Carole Hillenbrand: List of Publications
• List of Contributors
• Introduction, Yasir Suleiman
• 1. The Origin of Key Shiite Thought Patterns in Islamic History, Adel Al-Abdul Jader (Kuwait Foundation for the Advancement of Sciences)
• 2. Additions to The New Islamic Dynasties, C. Edmund Bosworth (University of Manchester (Emeritus))
• 3. Al-Tha'alibi's Adab al-muluk, A Local Mirror for Princes, Julia Bray (Universite Paris 8)
• 4. Religious Identity, Dissimulation and Assimilation: The Ismaili Experience, Farhad Daftary (Institute of Ismaili Studies)
• 5. Saladin's Pious Foundations in Damascus: Some New Hypotheses, Anne-Marie Edde (Institut de recherche et d'histoire des textes, CNRS)
• 6. The Coming of Islam to Bukhara, Hugh Kennedy (School of Oriental and African Studies)
• 7. A Barmecide Feast: The Downfall of the Barmakids in Popular Imagination, Remke Kruk (Universiteit Leiden)
• 8. The History of the Patriarchs of the Egyptian Church as a Source for the History of the Seljuks of Anatolia, Gary Leiser (Travis Air Museum)
• 9. Genealogy and Exemplary Rulership in the Tarikh-i Chingiz Khan, Charles Melville (University of Cambridge)
• 10. Vikings and Rus in Arabic Sources, James E. Montgomery (University of Cambridge)
• 11. Qashani and Rashid al-Din on the Seljuqs of Iran, Alexander H. Morton (School of Oriental and African Studies)
• 12. Exile and Return: Diasporas of the Secular and Sacred Mind, Ian Richard Netton (University of Exeter)
• 13. Clerical Perceptions of Sufi Practices in Late 17th Century Persia, II: Al-Hurr al-'Amili (d. 1693) and the Debate on the Permissibility of Ghina, Andrew J. Newman (University of Edinburgh)
• 14. On Sunni Sectarianism, A. Kevin Reinhart (Dartmouth College)
• 15. The Violence of the Abbasid Revolution, Chase F. Robinson (City University of New York)
• 16. Nationalist Poetry, Conflict and Meta-linguistic Discourse, Yasir Suleiman (University of Cambridge)
• Bibliography
• Index.
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The publication of this book honours Professor Carole Hillenbrand's outstanding achievements in and service to Islamic and Middle Eastern Scholarship. It gathers original research from a range of leading international scholars from the UK, Europe and the USA whose chapters throw new light on a set of topics in medieval Islamic history, Islamic doctrine and practice, and the interaction between Islam and the modern world. Seeking to present fresh evidence and engaging ways of looking at old and new material, the authors contribute to a richer understanding of the interaction between historical events, social trends, religious practices and lived experiences in medieval Turkey and Central Asia, Iran and the Arabic-speaking lands. The book also discusses how some of the most abiding themes in the Arab-Islamic tradition continue to resonate in the modern world. Living Islamic History features contributions from Adel Al-Abdul Jader, C. E. Bosworth, Julia Bray, Farhad Daftary, Anne-Marie Edde, Hugh Kennedy, Remke Kruk, Gary Leiser, Charles Melville, James E. Montgomery, A. H. Morton, Ian R. Netton, Andrew Newman, A. Kevin Reinhart, Chase F. Robinson and Yasir Suleiman.
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• The origin of key Shiʻite thought patterns in Islamic history / Adel S. al-Abdul Jader
• Additions to The new Islamic dynasties / C. Edmund Bosworth
• Al-Thaʻalibi's Adab al-muluk, a local mirror for princes / Julia Bray
• Religious identity, dissimulation and assimilation : the Ismaili experience / Farhad Daftary
• Saladin's pious foundations in Damascus : some new hypotheses / Anne-Marie Eddé
• The coming of Islam to Bukhara / Hugh Kennedy
• A Barmecide feast : the downfall of the Barmakids in popular imagination / Remke Kruk
• The History of the patriarchs of the Egyptian Church as a source for the history of the Seljuks of Anatolia / Gary Leiser
• Genealogy and exemplary rulership in the Tarikh-i Chingiz Khan / Charles Melville
• Vikings and Rus in Arabic sources / James E. Montgomery
• Qashani and Rashid al-Din on the Seljuqs of Iran / Alexander H. Morton
• Exile and return : diasporas of the secular and sacred mind / Ian Richard Netton
• Clerical perceptions of Sufi practices in late seventeenth-century Persia, II : Al-Hurr al-ʻAmili (d. 1693) and the debate on the permissibility of Ghina / Andrew J. Newman
• On Sunni sectarianism / A. Kevin Reinhart
• The violence of the Abbasid revolution / Chase F. Robinson
• Nationalist poetry, conflict and meta-linguistic discourse / Yasir Suleiman.

The publication of this book honours Professor Carole Hillenbrand' s outstanding achievements in and service to Islamic and Middle Eastern Scholarship. It gathers original research from a range of leading international scholars from the UK, Europe and the USA whose chapters throw new light on a set of topics in medieval Islamic history, Islamic doctrine and practice, and the interaction between Islam and the modern world. Seeking to present fresh evidence and engaging ways of looking at old and new material, the authors contribute to a richer understanding of the interaction between historical events, social trends, religious practices and lived experiences in medieval Turkey and Central Asia, Iran and the Arabic-speaking lands. The book also discusses how some of the most abiding themes in the Arab-Islamic tradition continue to resonate in the modern world. Living Islamic History features contributions from Adel Al-Abdul Jader, C. E. Bosworth, Julia Bray, Farhad Daftary, Anne-Marie Edde, Hugh Kennedy, Remke Kruk, Gary Leiser, Charles Melville, James E. Montgomery, A. H. Morton, Ian R. Netton, Andrew Newman, A. Kevin Reinhart, Chase F. Robinson and Yasir Suleiman.
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• v. 1. Hunter of the East : Arabic and Semitic studies / edited by Ian Richard Netton.
• v. 2. The Sultan's turret : studies in Persian and Turkish culture / edited by Carole Hillenbrand.

Professor C.E. Bosworth is a Middle East historian of world stature: in this volume his friends and colleagues come together to honour his 70th birthday. The diversity of these essays reflects the diversity and depth of Professor Bosworth's own interests. Ranging through the five areas of literature, language, history, law, and art and epigraphy, this volume embraces the ancient, the medieval and the modern, covering topics as diverse as the Maqama genre, the significance of wooden weapons in al-Mukhtar's revolt and 19th-century exchanges in Himyaritic inscriptions. The book illustrates the vibrancy and dynamism of modern scholarship in the field of Arabic and Semitic studies.
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• CONTENTS
• Foreword 6 Melanie Gibson and Ali Ansari
• Carole Hillenbrand: An Appreciation 8 Ali Ansari
• Carole Hillenbrand: Publications 10
• The Fatimid Caliph al-Zafir: A Reassessment 14 Kirsten Thomson
• Penning the Foundations: A Comparative Reading of Fatimid Origins Narratives with Abbasid and 'Ibadi Texts 24 Shainool Jiwa
• Crucicentric Foundations for Tenth-Century Isma'ili Caliphates 56 W. Richard Oakes, Jr.
• Problematising the Islamic: Evidence for the Crusades. The Frankish Red Sea Raid of 1183 68 Alex Mallett
• Al-Suyuti's Ta'rikh al-Khulafa': A History of Politics or Piety? 76 Stephen R. Burge
• The Death of Dargazini 90 Christian Lange
• Attribution of an Anonymous Qasida. Appended to the First Redaction of the Siyar al-Muluk: Stylometry Results 108 Alexey Khismatulin
• Two Royal Almanacs from Late Fourteenth-Century Anatolia 122 A.C.S. Peacock
• Mirza Saleh Shirazi's History of England 140 Ali Ansari
• Egypt's 2011 Popular Uprising in Gramscian Perspective 160 John Chalcraft
• The Islamic Manuscript Collection of A.S. Yahuda in Princeton University Library: A History of Acquisition 176 Saeko Yazaki
• Author Biographies 190.
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Collected essays honoring the work of British professors Carole and Robert Hillenbrand. Carole and Robert Hillenbrand are legendary British professors, both of whom have made immense contributions to the fields of Islamic history and art history, and they are highly respected and beloved by the academic community. For these two volumes, editors Melanie Gibson and Ali Ansari have gathered an eclectic mix of scholarly contributions by colleagues and by some of their most recent students who now occupy positions in universities worldwide. The eleven articles in the volume dedicated to Carole Hillenbrand include research on a range of topics, including the elusive Fatimid caliph al-Zafir, a crusader raid on Mecca, and the Persian bureaucrat Mirza Saleh Shirazi's history of England. In Robert Hillenbrand's volume, the thirteen articles include studies of a rare eighth-century metal dish with Nilotic scenes, Chinese Qur'ans, the process of image-making in both theory and practice, and a shrine in Mosul destroyed by ISIS.
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Carole and Robert Hillenbrand are acclaimed academics who have made immense contributions to the fields of Islamic history and art history. The respect and affection of the academic community towards them is legendary. For these two volumes, editors Ali Ansari and Melanie Gibson have gathered a wide-ranging selection of scholarly essays by some of their longstanding colleagues as well as by recent students who now occupy academic positions across the world. The volume dedicated to Carole Hillenbrand includes eleven articles on subjects which include the elusive Fatimid caliph al-Zafr, a Crusader raid on Mecca, and the Persian bureaucrat Mirza Saleh Shirazi's History of England.
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• Art and Medieval Jerusalem / Barbara Drake Boehm and Melanie Holcomb
• Trade and tourism in Medieval Jerusalem / Melanie Holcomb and Barbara Drake Boehm
• Domestic goods from the Suq to the home: imagining Jerusalem's interiors / Elizabeth Dospěl Williams
• Jewish-Muslim encounters in the Holy Land / Martin Jacobs
• Terra miracula: blessed souvenirs from the Holy Land / Avinoam Shalem
• Catalogue numbers 1-26
• Pluralism in the Holy City / Barbara Drake Boehm and Melanie Holcomb
• Saint Sabas and the monks of the Holy Land / Jennifer Ball
• The Karaites / Meira Polliack
• Maimonides and Jerusalem
• David Kraemer
• Merits of Jerusalem (Fada'il al-Quds) / Carole Hillenbrand
• Catalogue numbers 27-57
• Experiencing sacred art in Jerusalem / Melanie Holcomb and Barbara Drake Boehm
• The closed gate / Melanie Holcomb
• Sharing the church of the Holy Sepulchre during the Crusader period / Jaroslav Folda
• The Dome of the Rock / Robert Hillenbrand
• The minbar of Nur al-Din / Sylvia Auld
• The cradle of Jesus and the Oratory of Mary on Jerusalem's Haram al-Sharif / Nabil Matar
• Catalogue numbers 58-101
• Holy war and the power of art / Barbara Drake Boehm and Melanie Holcomb
• Jerusalem: The crucible of holy war / James Carroll
• Catalogue numbers 102-120
• Patronage in Jerusalem / Melanie Holcomb and Barbara Drake Boehm
• Jacques de Vitry / Barbara Drake Boehm
• The Armenian presence in Jerusalem / Helen C. Evans
• Franciscans in Jerusalem: The early history / Xavier John Seubert
• Muslim women patrons in Jerusalem / Yusuf Natsheh
• Catalogue numbers 121-136
• Seeking the eternal Jerusalem / Abby Kornfeld
• Catalogue numbers 137-149.

A comprehensive and timely exploration of the key role Jerusalem played in shaping the art and culture of the Middle Ages Medieval Jerusalem was a vibrant international center and home to multiple cultures, faiths, and languages. Harmonious and dissonant influences from Persian, Turkish, Greek, Syrian, Armenian, Georgian, Coptic, Ethiopian, Indian, and European traditions invested Jerusalem with a key role in shaping the art of the Middle Ages. Through compelling essays by international and interdisciplinary experts and detailed discussions of more than 200 works of art, this beautiful, authoritative volume breaks new ground in exploring the relationship between the historical and the archetypal city of Jerusalem, uncovering the ways in which the aesthetic achievements it inspired enhanced and enlivened the medieval world. Patrons and artists from Christian, Jewish, and Islamic traditions alike focused their attention on the Holy City, endowing and enriching its sacred buildings and creating luxury goods for its residents. This artistic fertility was particularly in evidence between the 11th and the 14th centuries, notwithstanding often devastating circumstances-from the earthquake of 1033 to the fierce battles of the Crusades. Dazzling illustrations featuring new photography complement this unprecedented, panoptic story of Jerusalem in the Middle Ages.
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