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By Francesco Gabrieli
The recapture of Jerusalem, the siege of acre, the autumn of Tripoli, the impression in Baghdad of occasions in Syria; those and different happenings have been faithfully recorded by means of Arab historians through the centuries of the Crusades. First released in English in 1969, this booklet offers 'the different part' of the Holy battle, delivering the 1st English translation of up to date Arab bills of the combating among Muslim and Christian.
Extracts are drawn from seventeen diversified authors encompassing a mess of sources:
- The normal histories of the Muslim international,
- The chronicles of towns, areas and their dynasties
- Contemporary biographies and files of well-known deeds.
Overall, this publication offers a sweeping and stimulating view of the Crusades obvious via Arab eyes.
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None the less they continued their raids and their efforts to cut the Frankish supply lines and intercept their convoys. They cut the bridge on the road to Sidon to prevent reinforcements from arriving by that route. The Franks reverted to bringing in all their supplies by sea. When Zahīr ad-Din heard what they were doing he took a section of the army round to the north side of the city, over-running the area outside the city walls. A number of sailors were killed and about twenty ships fired where they lay drawn up on the shore.
3 4 4 Arab Historians of the Crusades with the cuirass-maker, God damn him! and made their way to the water-gate. They opened it and entered the city. Another gang of them climbed the tower with ropes. At dawn, when more than 500 of them were in the city and the defenders were worn out after the night watch, they sounded their trumpets. Yaghi Siyān woke up and asked what the noise meant. He was told that trumpets had sounded from the citadel and that it must have been taken. In fact the sound came not from the citadel but from the tower.
This led to a brawl. The whole matter was referred to the Count, who said, ‘This man is of no use either to you or to us’, and had him killed. In safar of the next year (502/September 1109) a battle was fought between Jawalī Saqau and Tancred the Frank, Prince of Antioch. The cause was a letter sent by Ridwān (of Aleppo) to Tancred of Antioch, putting him on his guard against Jawalī by informing him of Jawalī’s treacherous plot to attack Aleppo. Ridwān said that with Jawalī in Aleppo Tancred’s Franks would no longer be able to maintain their hold on Syria.