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  title info:
    title: Zengi and the Muslim response to the Crusades
    sub title: the politics of jihad
  name:
    name part: El-Azhari, Taef Kamal
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: biography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    date issued: 2016
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: 194 pages ; 24 cm.
  abstract: "Zengi gained his legacy as the precursor to Saladin. While Zengi captured Edessa, Saladin would capture Jerusalem, and both leaders fought to establish their own realms. However, Zengi cannot be fully understood without an examination of his other policies and warfare and an appreciation of his Turkmen background, all of which influenced his fight against the Crusades. Zengi and the Muslim Response to the Crusades : the politics of Jihad, provides a full and rich picture of Zengi's career: his personality and motives; his power and ambition; his background and his foundation of a dynasty and its contribution, along with other dynasties, to a wider, deeper Turkification of the Middle East; his tools and methods; his vision, calamities and achievements; and how he was perceived by his contemporaries and modern scholars. Examining primary Muslim and non-Muslim sources, this book's extensive translations of original source material provides new insight into the complexities of Zengi's rule, and the politics of jihad that he led and orchestrated during the Crusades. Providing deeper understanding of Islamic history through a close examination of one of its key figures, this book will be a valuable resource for students and scholars interested in Muslim history and the Crusades in general"--Provided by publisher.
  table of contents: The early career of Zengi, 1084-1127 : the Turkmen influence -- Zengi and his hostile policy towards the Seljuq Sultanate and the 'Abbasid Caliphate in Iran and Iraq : the art of pragmatism, 1127-46 -- Fragmented pacts : wars in the Jazira and Anatolia to dominate the Turkmen, the Kurds and the Arab tribes -- Confronting the Crusaders and the Seljuqs in Syria : holy and unholy war, 1127-40 -- The fall of Edessa : jihad at the end of a career -- Zengid administration and institutions : "Turkification" continued.
  note: Taef El-Azhari.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: a-sy---
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Zankī, ʻImād al-Dīn ibn Āq Sunqar
      name part: 1084?-1146
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Zankī, ʻImād al-Dīn ibn Āq Sunqar
      name part: 1084?-1146
    topic: Political and social views
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Zankī, ʻImād al-Dīn ibn Āq Sunqar
      name part: 1084?-1146
    topic: Military leadership
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Zankī, ʻImād al-Dīn ibn Āq Sunqar
      name part: 1084?-1146
    topic: Public opinion
  subject:
    geographic: Syria
    topic: Kings and rulers
    genre: Biography
  subject:
    topic: Turkmen
    geographic: Syria
    genre: Biography
  subject:
    topic: Crusades
  subject:
    topic: Jihad
    topic: Political aspects
    geographic: Syria
    topic: History
    temporal: To 1500
  subject:
    geographic: Syria
    topic: History
    temporal: 750-1260
  subject:
    geographic: Syria
    topic: History, Military
  classification: DS97.3 .E43 2016
  classification: 956.91/02092 B
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Routledge studies in the history of Iran and Turkey
  identifier: 9781138821019
  identifier: 1138821012
  identifier: 9781315743523
  identifier: 2015039748
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 160129
    record change date: 20170927135437.0
    record identifier: in00003779329
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng