ISBN10: 9004100326, ISBN13: 9789004100329, [publisher: Leiden : Brill] Hardcover vi, 410 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm. Contents: Arms of the Umayyad era : military technology in a time of change / David Nicolle -- Some administrative, military and socio-political aspects of early Muslim Egypt / Khalil ʹAthamina -- Regime, army and society in medieval Egypt, 9th-12th centuries / Yaacov Lev -- Personal adversities of Jews during the period of the Fatimid wars in eleventh century Palestine / Elinoar Bareket -- Technology and success of the First Crusade / John France -- Zwischen Joseph-Legende und Mahdi-Erwartung : Erfolge und Ziele Sultan Saladins im Spiegel zeitgenössicher Dichtung und Weissagung / Hannes Möhring -- Kurdes et Turcs dans l'armée ayyoubide de Syrie du Nord / Anne-Marie Eddé -- The impact of the Crusades on rural society and religious endowments : the case of medieval Syria (Bilad al-Sham) / Yehoshua Frenkel -- Mongol society and military in the Middle East : antecedents and adaptations / John Masson Smith, Jr. -- The Mamluk officer class during the reign of Sultan Baybars / Reuven Amitai-Preiss -- Les dernières Batailles du grand émir Yas̆bak min Mahdī / Bernadette Martel-Thoumian -- Gunpowder weapons at the siege of Constantinople, 1453 / Kelly DeVries -- Ottoman military technology : the metallurgy of Turkish armour / Alan Williams -- A note on hudna : peace making in Islam / Gideon Weigert.
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