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In Plain Sight - (Middle Ages) by Ann E Zimo (Hardcover)

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  • How Muslims integrated themselves into the Kingdom of Jerusalem, founded in the wake of the First Crusade In Plain Sight draws from a wide array of interdisciplinary sources to show how Muslims, seemingly hostile to the entire crusading enterprise, integrated themselves into the kingdom founded in the wake of the First Crusade.
  • About the Author: Ann E. Zimo is Assistant Professor of Humanities at the University of New Hampshire.
  • 288 Pages
  • History, Europe
  • Series Name: Middle Ages

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"This book explores the topic of how Muslims fit into the society of the crusader kingdom of Jerusalem of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. By examining geographic, economic, legal, political, and cultural data, it argues that Muslims were not marginal or marginalized in the crusader period Levant, but formed an important often crucial community"--



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How Muslims integrated themselves into the Kingdom of Jerusalem, founded in the wake of the First Crusade

In Plain Sight draws from a wide array of interdisciplinary sources to show how Muslims, seemingly hostile to the entire crusading enterprise, integrated themselves into the kingdom founded in the wake of the First Crusade. The book examines how Muslims, whether Sunni or Shi'a or Druze, fit into society in the crusader Kingdom of Jerusalem, uncovering the daily reality of their experience. Exploring how and to what extent Muslims interacted with the Frankish ruling elite, historian Ann E. Zimo presents a new vantage point from which to reconsider the popularly accepted notion that the crusades, and by extension the crusader states, were a locus of a monolithic clash between West and East or between Christianity and Islam. By untangling the relations between the Muslim communities and their rulers, Zimo offers a more fully realized image of a society too multifaceted to be reasonably reduced to a black-and-white binary opposition.

Zimo not only re-reads the well-known Frankish sources, including narrative chronicles, letters, charters, and legal treatises, but combines them with an investigation of the Arabic documentary base, including chronicles, biographies, fatwa literature, pilgrimage guides, and treaties which are not translated and largely inaccessible to most historians of the crusades. She also draws from the enormous and growing body of scholarship generated by archaeologists whose work can often provide insights into the aspects of the past not recorded in the historical record. By casting such a wide evidentiary net, In Plain Sight sheds new light on Frankish society and how Muslims fit into it, offering major revisions to the current conception of population distribution within the kingdom and the nature of the Frankish polity itself.



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"In Plain Sight is a revelation, introducing its readers to Arabic sources rarely cited in reference to Frankish Syria, and to interactions between Muslims and Franks that blur the boundary between them. This vital book, the first to tackle the subject of Muslims within the kingdom of Jerusalem rather than just as neighbors or enemies of the Franks, will make a profound impact on the field."-- "Christopher MacEvitt, author of The Crusades and the Christian World of the East"



About the Author



Ann E. Zimo is Assistant Professor of Humanities at the University of New Hampshire.
Dimensions (Overall): 9.0 Inches (H) x 6.0 Inches (W) x .81 Inches (D)
Weight: 1.31 Pounds
Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up
Number of Pages: 288
Series Title: Middle Ages
Genre: History
Sub-Genre: Europe
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Theme: Medieval
Format: Hardcover
Author: Ann E Zimo
Language: English
Street Date: September 24, 2024
TCIN: 91305991
UPC: 9781512824896
Item Number (DPCI): 247-29-8118
Origin: Made in the USA or Imported
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