Usama ibn Munqidh

Broschiertes Buch

The Book of Contemplation

Islam and the Crusades

Übersetzer: Cobb, Paul M

Beschreibung

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.

Autor

Usama ibn Munqidh (1095-1188) was born in northern Syria. In the last decades of his life he concentrated on writing, collecting his scattered poems into a much-praised Diwan, but specialising in topical anthologies of poetry and prose like The Book of the Staff or Kernels of Refinement.  Usama's last patron was the mighty sultan Saladin, to whom he intended his most famous work, the Book of Contemplation. He died in Damascus in 1188.

Produktdetails

• Penguin Classics
• Verlag: Penguin Books UK
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 43095
• Seitenzahl: 400
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. September 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 197mm x 131mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 306g
• ISBN-13: 9780140455137
• ISBN-10: 0140455132
• Artikelnr.: 23550117