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^ Cobb, Usama ibn Munqidh, p. Yet as a resident of the area around Palestine, he also had a chance to befriend a number of them. xxxiii-xxxv.

^ Cobb, Usama ibn Munqidh, p. So we said to him, "How quickly has thou healed thy patients!" He said:

They brought before me a knight in whose leg an abscess had grown; and a woman afflicted with imbecility.

Then take burnt lead, soak it in ghee butter and treat him with it. Paul M. Cobb. 34-37.

^The Chronicle of Ibn al-Athir for the Crusading Period from al-Kamil i'l-Ta'rikh, Part 2: The Years 541-589/1146-1193: The Age of Nur al-Din and Saladin, trans. Khalil Athamina and Roger Heacock (Birzeit, 1994), pp. 9–29.

The Chronicle of Ibn al-Athir for the Crusading Period from al-Kamil i'l-Ta'rikh, Part 2: The Years 541-589/1146-1193: The Age of Nur al-Din and Saladin, trans.

In 1140 Unur sent Usama back to Jerusalem to conclude a treaty with the crusaders, and both he and Unur visited their new allies numerous times between 1140 and 1143. Murshid was his father, Ali his grandfather, and Munqidh his great-grandfather. Encyclopaedia of Islam, 2nd. After his capture he entered Zengi's service, and travelled throughout northern Syria, Iraq, and Armenia fighting against Zengi's enemies, including the Abbasid caliph outside Baghdad in 1132.

16-17, 51, and the family tree on p. VII (Leiden: Brill, 1960–2002), p. Paul M. Cobb (Penguin Classics, 2008), introduction, p.

Thereupon he asked, "Is thy mother still alive?" "Yes." I replied. 179.

^The Chronicle of Ibn al-Athir, trans. Az-Zafir's relatives called upon a supporter, Ibn Ruzzik, who chased Abbas out of Cairo, and Usama followed him.

The only survivor was Muhammad's wife.

Among people deceased in 1188, Usama ibn Munqidh ranks 2. He often meddled in the politics of the courts in which he served, and he was exiled from both Damascus and Cairo.

During and immediately after his life he was most famous as a poet and adib (a "man of letters"). VII (Leiden: Brill, 1960–2002).

Robert Irwin, "Usama ibn Munqidh: an Arab-Syrian gentleman at the time of the Crusades reconsidered." The Crusades and their sources: essays presented to Bernard Hamilton ed.

There a blind man, a Muslim, who was still young and was well dressed, presented himself before al-amir carrying fruits for him and asked permission to be admitted into his service in Damascus. 69.

^Carole Hillenbrand, The Crusades: Islamic Perspectives (Routledge, 2000), p.