Medieval Jerusalem
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| + | The [[history of Jerusalem]] during the [[Middle Ages]] is generally one of decline; beginning as a major city in the [[Byzantine Empire]], Jerusalem prospered during the early centuries of [[Islamization of Palestine|Muslim control]] (637/38–969), but under the rule of the [[Fatimid caliphate]] (late 10th to 11th centuries) its population decreased from about 200,000 to less than half that number by the time of the Christian conquest in 1099. The [[Christians]] [[Siege of Jerusalem (1099)|massacred]] much of the population as they took the city, and while population quickly recovered during the [[Kingdom of Jerusalem]], it was again decimated to below 2,000 people when the [[Khwarezmi Turks]] retook the city in 1244. After this, the city remained a backwater of the late medieval Muslim empires and would not again exceed a population of 10,000 until the 16th century. | ||
| - | '''''The Crusades Through Arab Eyes''''' (1983, ''Les Croisades vues par les Arabes'') is a [[French language]] historical [[essay]] on [[the crusades]] by [[Lebanese people|Lebanese]] author [[Amin Maalouf]]. | ||
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| - | As the name suggests, the book is a narrative retelling of primary sources drawn from various [[Arab]] [[chronicle]]s that seeks to provide an Arab perspective on the [[Crusades]], and especially regarding the Crusaders – the [[Franks]] (Franj), as the Arabs called them – who are considered cruel, savage, ignorant and culturally backward. | ||
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| - | From the [[First Crusade|first invasion]] in the eleventh century through till the [[Siege of Acre (1291)|general collapse of the Crusades]] in the thirteenth century, the book constructs a narrative that is the reverse of that common in the [[Western world]], describing the main facts as bellicose and displaying situations of a quaint historic setting where [[Western Christians]] are viewed as "[[barbarians]]", unaware of the most elementary rules of [[honor]], [[dignity]] and social [[ethics]]. | ||
| - | ==Dutch translation== | ||
| - | ''Rovers, christenhonden, vrouwenschenners : de kruistochten in Arabische kronieken''. | ||
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| - | *[[Assassins ]] | + | *[[Aelia Capitolina]] |
| - | *[[Baldwin I of Jerusalem ]] | + | *[[Demographic history of Jerusalem]] |
| - | *[[Amin Maalouf ]] | + | *[[Kingdom of Jerusalem]] |
| - | *[[Baldwin II of Jerusalem ]] | + | *[[Old City of Jerusalem]] |
| - | *[[Leo Africanus (novel) ]] | + | |
| - | *[[Arghun ]] | + | |
| - | *[[Maarrat al-Nu'man ]] | + | |
| - | *[[Balthasar's Odyssey ]] | + | |
| - | *[[Mongol invasions of the Levant ]] | + | |
| - | *[[L'Amour de loin ]] | + | |
| - | *[[In the Name of Identity ]] | + | |
| - | *[[History of Jerusalem during the Middle Ages ]] | + | |
| - | *[[Adriana Mater ]] | + | |
| - | *[[Toghtekin ]] | + | |
| - | *[[Mawdud ]] | + | |
| - | *[[La Passion de Simone ]] | + | |
| - | *[[The Gardens of Light ]] | + | |
| - | *[[Émilie (opera) ]] | + | |
| - | *[[The Rock of Tanios ]] | + | |
| - | *[[Samarkand (novel) ]] | + | |
| - | *[[The First Century after Beatrice ]] | + | |
| - | *[[Ports of Call (Maalouf novel) ]] | + | |
| - | *[[Mongol Armenia ]] | + | |
| - | *[[Wael Shawky ]] | + | |
| - | *[[The Crusades, An Arab Perspective ]] | + | |
| - | *[[Lordship of Tyre ]] | + | |
| - | *[[Timeline of the Kingdom of Jerusalem ]] | + | |
| - | *[[Timeline of the Principality of Antioch ]] | + | |
| - | *[[Aqsunqur al-Bursuqi ]] | + | |
| - | *[[Banu Munqidh ]] | + | |
| - | *[[Shams-ul-Mulk Isma'il ]] | + | |
| - | *[[Siege of Aleppo (1124) ]] | + | |
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The history of Jerusalem during the Middle Ages is generally one of decline; beginning as a major city in the Byzantine Empire, Jerusalem prospered during the early centuries of Muslim control (637/38–969), but under the rule of the Fatimid caliphate (late 10th to 11th centuries) its population decreased from about 200,000 to less than half that number by the time of the Christian conquest in 1099. The Christians massacred much of the population as they took the city, and while population quickly recovered during the Kingdom of Jerusalem, it was again decimated to below 2,000 people when the Khwarezmi Turks retook the city in 1244. After this, the city remained a backwater of the late medieval Muslim empires and would not again exceed a population of 10,000 until the 16th century.
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