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The Cutting Edge of the Poet’s Sword: Muslim Poetic Responses to the Crusades

The Cutting Edge of the Poet’s Sword: Muslim Poetic Responses to the Crusades 236 BOOK REVIEWS (The Muslim World in the Age of the Crusades, volume III), Osman Latiff, 2018, Leiden: Brill, xii + 299 pp., £72.96 (hardback), ISBN 978-90-04-34522-5 The past few years have witnessed the publication of many exciting new works on Muslim responses to the Crusades, including El-Azhari’s excellent study on the Turkish commander Zangi and Christie’s textbook, Muslims and Crusaders. Several texts by contemporary Muslim authors have been published in new critical editions along with English translations while the series Routledge Studies on the History of Iran and Turkey (of which El-Azhari’s work is part) continues to generate high-quality studies on the Seljuk Turks. Thus, Osman Latiff’s study on poetic responses to the Crusades comes at a time when research in this field is flourishing. In scope, The Cutting Edge of the Poet’s Sword is concerned with the various poems written by Muslim authors in the decades following the First Crusade, focussing specifically on those concerned either with the Frankish settlers or with related themes. The bulk of the discussion concentrates on the twelfth century, although there is some coverage of later events (especially the Fifth Crusade). In structure, the book consists of eight chapters, the first three http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Al-Masaq: Journal of the Medieval Mediterranean Taylor & Francis

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236 BOOK REVIEWS (The Muslim World in the Age of the Crusades, volume III), Osman Latiff, 2018, Leiden: Brill, xii + 299 pp., £72.96 (hardback), ISBN 978-90-04-34522-5 The past few years have witnessed the publication of many exciting new works on Muslim responses to the Crusades, including El-Azhari’s excellent study on the Turkish commander Zangi and Christie’s textbook, Muslims and Crusaders. Several texts by contemporary Muslim authors have been published in new...
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Taylor & Francis
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© 2018 Nicholas Morton
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10.1080/09503110.2018.1480133
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236 BOOK REVIEWS (The Muslim World in the Age of the Crusades, volume III), Osman Latiff, 2018, Leiden: Brill, xii + 299 pp., £72.96 (hardback), ISBN 978-90-04-34522-5 The past few years have witnessed the publication of many exciting new works on Muslim responses to the Crusades, including El-Azhari’s excellent study on the Turkish commander Zangi and Christie’s textbook, Muslims and Crusaders. Several texts by contemporary Muslim authors have been published in new critical editions along with English translations while the series Routledge Studies on the History of Iran and Turkey (of which El-Azhari’s work is part) continues to generate high-quality studies on the Seljuk Turks. Thus, Osman Latiff’s study on poetic responses to the Crusades comes at a time when research in this field is flourishing. In scope, The Cutting Edge of the Poet’s Sword is concerned with the various poems written by Muslim authors in the decades following the First Crusade, focussing specifically on those concerned either with the Frankish settlers or with related themes. The bulk of the discussion concentrates on the twelfth century, although there is some coverage of later events (especially the Fifth Crusade). In structure, the book consists of eight chapters, the first three

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