Medieval Muslim Historians and the Franks in the Levant - Paperback

by Alex Mallett (Volume Editor)

In Medieval Muslim Historians and the Franks in the Levant seven leading scholars examine the historical writings of seven medieval Muslim historians whose works provide the core chronographical texts for reconstructing the events of the crusading period, 1097-1291.
Each chapter examines the life of and influences on each historian, their overall writings, and their historical works related to the Crusades. Each historical text is examined for the current state of modern research, the sources and working method of the author, and its use and relevance for crusader studies and other fields of research. This volume will be of use to anyone studying the events of the Crusades, of Islamic History, or of Arabic Historiography in the medieval period.

Contributors include: Frédéric Bauden, Niall Christie, Anne-Marie Eddé, Konrad Hirschler, Alex Mallett, and Françoise Micheau, Lutz Richter-Bernburg

Author Biography

Alex Mallett (Ph.D. 2009, University of Edinburgh) is Associate Professor in the Faculty of International Research and Education and a member of the team of the Chair of the State of Qatar for Islamic Area Studies at Waseda University, Tokyo. He has also edited a second volume Medieval Muslim Historians and the Franks in the Levant (Leiden, 2024). He is the author of Franks and Crusades in Medieval Eastern Christian Historiography (Turnhout, 2021).