Amin Maalouf

The Crusades Through Arab Eyes

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  • Gloria Nanfukahas quoted5 years ago
    In their mind’s eye they saw their city pillaged, the men massacred, the women raped.
  • Gloria Nanfukahas quoted5 years ago
    Breathlessly, he panted out his message: the Franj were back; they had crossed the Bosporus once again, in greater numbers than the previous year.
  • Gloria Nanfukahas quoted5 years ago
    He would soon become the hero of a famous epic, appropriately entitled The Exploits of King Danishmend, which recounted the conquest of MalaÔya, an Armenian city south-east of Ankara.
  • Gloria Nanfukahas quoted5 years ago
    Kilij Arslan’s father had conquered Asia Minor, the vast area of Anatolia, without any help from his brothers, and when he attempted to move further south, into Syria, he was killed by one of his own cousins.
  • Gloria Nanfukahas quoted5 years ago
    Within a few years of their arrival in the Middle East from central Asia, the Seljuk Turks, with their thousands of nomadic horsemen sporting long braided hair, had seized control of the entire region, from Afghanistan to the Mediterranean.
  • Gloria Nanfukahas quoted5 years ago
    He sent two Greek spies to the Civitot camp to report that Reynald’s men were in an excellent position, and that they had succeeded in taking Nicaea itself, whose riches they had no intention of sharing with their coreligionists.
  • Gloria Nanfukahas quoted5 years ago
    Kilij Arslan decided to attempt a ruse.
  • Gloria Nanfukahas quoted5 years ago
    At the end of the week, the leader of the expedition, a knight named Reynald, agreed to capitulate provided his life would be spared.
  • Gloria Nanfukahas quoted5 years ago
    They went so far as to drink the blood of their mounts and their own urine.
  • Gloria Nanfukahas quoted5 years ago
    Young children were even said to have been burned alive.
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