Building upon previous volumes by the same editor, this book contains studies of nine of the most important writers of Arabic-language textual sources for the Crusades and the Frankish presence in the eastern Mediterranean in the period 1097-1291.
Alexander Mallett is Associate Professor in the Faculty of International Research and Education and a member of the team of the Chair of the State of Qatar for Islamic Area Studies at Waseda University, Tokyo. He has previously edited Medieval Muslim Historians and the Franks in the Levant (Leiden, 2014) and Franks and Crusades in Medieval Eastern Christian Historiography (Turnhout, 2021).