Alliances and Treaties between Frankish and Muslim Rulers in the Middle East

Download or read book Alliances and Treaties between Frankish and Muslim Rulers in the Middle East written by Michael Köhler and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2013-04-25 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Alliances and Treaties between Frankish and Muslim Rulers Michael Köhler presents a fully integrated study of Frankish-Muslim diplomacy in the period from the First Crusade through to the thirteenth century. It is a ground-breaking study that challenges preconceived notions of the relations between Frankish and Muslim rulers in the Middle East. Commonly portrayed as an era of conflict, the period appears here as one in which conventions of diplomatic cooperation were commonplace. This book is one of the few works in the fields of Crusader Studies and Middle Eastern Studies that draws to the same extent on Arabic and Western sources; two textual traditions that have usually been studied in isolation from each other.