Taef El-Azhari

Zengi and the Muslim Response to the Crusades

The politics of Jihad

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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 m

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 192
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Dezember 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 152mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 340g
• ISBN-13: 9780367870737
• ISBN-10: 0367870738
• Artikelnr.: 58439923

Autorenporträt

Taef El-Azhari is Professor of Islamic and Middle Eastern History at Qatar University.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction 1. The early career of Zengi, 1084-1127: the Turkmen influence
2. Zengi and his hostile policy towards the Seljuq sultanate and the
'Abbasid caliphate in Iran and Iraq: the art of pragmatism, 1127-46 3.
Fragmented pacts: wars in the Jazira and Anatolia to dominate the Turkmen,
the Kurds and the Arab tribes 4. Confronting the Crusaders and the Seljuqs
in Syria: holy and unholy war, 1127-40 5. The fall of Edessa: jihad at the
end of a career 6. Zengid administration and institutions: 'Turkification'
continued