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Zengi gained his legacy as the precursor to Saladin. While Zengi
captured Edessa, Saladin would capture Jerusalem, and both leaders
fought to establish their own realms. However, Zengi cannot be
fully understood without an examination of his other policies and
warfare and an appreciation of his Turkmen background, all of which
influenced his fight against the Crusades. Zengi and the Muslim
Response to the Crusades: The politics of Jihad, provides a full
and rich picture of Zengi's career: his personality and motives;
his power and ambition; his background and his foundation of a
dynasty and its contribution, along with other dynasties, to a
wider, deeper Turkification of the Middle East; his tools and
methods; his vision, calamities and achievements; and how he was
perceived by his contemporaries and modern scholars. Examining
primary Muslim and non-Muslim sources, this book's extensive
translations of original source material provides new insight into
the complexities of Zengi's rule, and the politics of jihad that he
led and orchestrated during the Crusades. Providing deeper
understanding of Islamic history through a close examination of one
of its key figures, this book will be a valuable resource for
students and scholars interested in Muslim history and the Crusades
in general.
Based on original and previously unexamined sources, this book
provides a critical and systematic analysis of the role of women,
mothers, wives, eunuchs, concubines, qahramans and atabegs in the
dynamics and manipulation of medieval Islamic politics. Spanning
over 600 years, Taef El-Azhari explores gender and sexual politics
and power: from the time of the Prophet Muhammad through the
Umayyad and Abbasid periods to the Mamluks in the 15th century, and
from Iran and Central Asia to North Africa and Spain.
Zengi gained his legacy as the precursor to Saladin. While Zengi
captured Edessa, Saladin would capture Jerusalem, and both leaders
fought to establish their own realms. However, Zengi cannot be
fully understood without an examination of his other policies and
warfare and an appreciation of his Turkmen background, all of which
influenced his fight against the Crusades. Zengi and the Muslim
Response to the Crusades: The politics of Jihad, provides a full
and rich picture of Zengi's career: his personality and motives;
his power and ambition; his background and his foundation of a
dynasty and its contribution, along with other dynasties, to a
wider, deeper Turkification of the Middle East; his tools and
methods; his vision, calamities and achievements; and how he was
perceived by his contemporaries and modern scholars. Examining
primary Muslim and non-Muslim sources, this book's extensive
translations of original source material provides new insight into
the complexities of Zengi's rule, and the politics of jihad that he
led and orchestrated during the Crusades. Providing deeper
understanding of Islamic history through a close examination of one
of its key figures, this book will be a valuable resource for
students and scholars interested in Muslim history and the Crusades
in general.
Based on original and previously unexamined sources, this book
provides a critical and systematic analysis of the role of women,
mothers, wives, eunuchs, concubines, qahramans and atabegs in the
dynamics and manipulation of medieval Islamic politics. Spanning
over 600 years, Taef El-Azhari explores gender and sexual politics
and power: from the time of the Prophet Muhammad through the
Umayyad and Abbasid periods to the Mamluks in the 15th century, and
from Iran and Central Asia to North Africa and Spain.
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