The cutting edge of the poet's sword Muslim poetic responses to the Crusades / by Osman Latiff.

SeriesThe Muslim world in the age of the Crusades: studies and texts ; 3
Contents Introduction: setting the scene -- Poetry and poetics in medieval Arabic discourse -- Theories and principles of jihad and the quest for martyrdom -- Formative Muslim responses: Franks (Faranj), Christians (Rum) and the making of a Christian enemy -- Poeticising the reconquest and future expectations -- Literary underpinnings of the anti-Frankish jihad -- The place of Egypt in sixth-/twelfth- and seventh-/thirteenth-century discourse -- Shattered dreams: Jerusalem, the umma, and new enemies -- Conclusion -- Appendix: Arabic poems.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
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LCCN 2017037316
ISBN9789004345218 (hardback : alk. paper)

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