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The Book of Contemplation
  • Published: 5 August 2008
  • ISBN: 9780141919171
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 400

The Book of Contemplation

Islam and the Crusades




First time in Classics for this timely new translation of two eye-witness accounts of the Crusades, from the perspective of medieval Muslim writers

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

  • Published: 5 August 2008
  • ISBN: 9780141919171
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 400
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