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Publication Name
The Book of Contemplation
Title
The Book of Contemplation
Subtitle
Islam and the Crusades
ISBN-10
0140455132
EAN
9780140455137
ISBN
9780140455137
Release Year
2008
Release Date
03/07/2008
Country/Region of Manufacture
GB
Book Title
Book of Contemplation : Islam and the Crusades
Publisher
Penguin Publishing Group
Item Length
7.8 in
Publication Year
2008
Format
Uk-B Format Paperback
Language
English
Illustrator
Yes
Item Height
0.9 in
Author
Usama Ibn Munqidh
Genre
History, Social Science
Topic
Islamic Studies, Military / Medieval, Middle East / General
Item Weight
10.4 Oz
Item Width
5.2 in
Number of Pages
400 Pages

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Product Information

The volume comprises lightly antated translation of a key medieval Arabic text that bears directly on the Crusades and Crusader society and the Muslim experience of them.

Product Identifiers

Publisher
Penguin Publishing Group
ISBN-10
0140455132
ISBN-13
9780140455137
eBay Product ID (ePID)
96540215

Product Key Features

Book Title
Book of Contemplation : Islam and the Crusades
Number of Pages
400 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Islamic Studies, Military / Medieval, Middle East / General
Publication Year
2008
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
History, Social Science
Author
Usama Ibn Munqidh
Format
Uk-B Format Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height
0.9 in
Item Weight
10.4 Oz
Item Length
7.8 in
Item Width
5.2 in
Height
198mm
Width
129mm
Weight
292g

Additional Product Features

Intended Audience
Trade
Place of Publication
London
Spine
23mm
Translated by
Paul M. Cobb
Country of Publication
United Kingdom
Edited by
Paul M. Cobb
Author Biography
Usama ibn Munqidh was born on 4 July, 1095 in northern Syria. In the last decades of his life he concentrated on writing, collecting his scattered poems into a much-praised Diwan, but specialising in topical anthologies of poetry and prose like The Book of the Staff or Kernels of Refinement. Usama's last patron was the mighty sultan Saladin, to whom he intended his most famous work, the Book of Contemplation. He died in Damascus in 1188. Paul Cobb, Associate Professor of Arabic and Islamic History at the University of Pennsylvania, has been engaged on a long-term project involving Muslim views of the Crusades and the writings of Usama ibn Munqidh in particular.
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