An Arab-Syrian gentleman and warrior in the period of the Crusades : memoirs of Usāmah ibn-Munqidh (Kitāb al-Iʻtibār) ; translated from the original manuscript by Philip K. Hitti ; with a new foreword by Richard W. Bulliet.

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Usāmah ibn Munqidh, 1095-1188.

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An Arab-Syrian gentleman and warrior in the period of the Crusades : memoirs of Usāmah ibn-Munqidh (Kitāb al-Iʻtibār) ; translated from the original manuscript by Philip K. Hitti ; with a new foreword by Richard W. Bulliet.