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Medieval Muslim Historians and the Franks in the Levant ...does not offer translations, but rather supplies detailed introductions to seven of the most important Arabic authors of the crusading period. [...] Thus, this work would perhaps be better classified as a reference work rather than as an essay collection. [...]. Medieval Muslim Historians is an excellent resource for those studying the Islamic sources for the Crusades and will prove very helpful to many. The essays supply considerably more background than the current excyclopaedia entries in circulation on these authors (which in most cases would formerly have been the only general summaries available to non-Arabic-speaking historians). Thus this book stands alongside Mallett's contributions to the magisterial Christian-Muslim Relations: A Bibliographical History as another substantial contribution to the provision of reference works in the field. Nicholas Morton in Al-Masaq, 27:3 (2015). This is a very useful book. [...]. After an introduction by the editor, we have contributions by Niall Christie on Ibn al-Qalanisi, Lutz Richter-Bernburg on 'Imad al-Din al-Isfahani, Francoise Micheau on Ibn al-Athir, Alex Mallett on Sibt Ibn al-Jawzi, Anne-Marie Edde on Ibn al-'Adim, Konrad Hirschler on Ibn Wasil and, finally, Frederic Bauden on al-Maqrizi. Each essay discusses the life of the author, the scope of his writings, the earlier and current editions and translations of the texts and the attitudes of the historians to the Franks. Anyone embarking on the study of the Crusader states in the Levant will find this a helpful guide. For the non-Arabist, it will provide background and context for works which are otherwise only names in footnotes. [...]. This volume in an excellent introduction... . Hugh Kennedy in EHR, cxxxi. 550 (2016).

Medieval Muslim Historians and the Franks in the Levant ...does not offer translations, but rather supplies detailed introductions to seven of the most important Arabic authors of the crusading period. [...] Thus, this work would perhaps be better classified as a reference work rather than as an essay collection. [...]. Medieval Muslim Historians is an excellent resource for those studying the Islamic sources for the Crusades and will prove very helpful to many. The essays supply considerably more background than the current excyclopaedia entries in circulation on these authors (which in most cases would formerly have been the only general summaries available to non-Arabic-speaking historians). Thus this book stands alongside Mallett's contributions to the magisterial Christian-Muslim Relations: A Bibliographical History as another substantial contribution to the provision of reference works in the field.. Nicholas Morton in Al-Masaq, 27:3 (2015). This is a very useful book. [...]. After an introduction by the editor, we have contributions by Niall Christie on Ibn al-Qalanisi, Lutz Richter-Bernburg on Ê¿Imad al-Din al-Isfahani, Francoise Micheau on Ibn al-Athir, Alex Mallett on Sibt Ibn al-Jawzi, Anne-Marie Edde on Ibn al-Ê¿Adim, Konrad Hirschler on Ibn Wasil and, finally, Frederic Bauden on al-Maqrizi. Each essay discusses the life of the author, the scope of his writings, the earlier and current editions and translations of the texts and the attitudes of the historians to the Franks. Anyone embarking on the study of the Crusader states in the Levant will find this a helpful guide. For the non-Arabist, it will provide background and context for works which are otherwise only names in footnotes. [...]. This volume in an excellent introduction... . Hugh Kennedy in EHR, cxxxi. 550 (2016).

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Alex Mallett (Ph.D. 2009, University of Edinburgh) is a Research Fellow in the Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies, University of Exeter. He is the author of Popular Muslim Reactions to the Franks in the Levant, 1097-1291 (Ashgate, 2014), and co-editor of the five-volume series Christian-Muslim Relations: A Bibliographical History (Brill, 2009-2013).

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