Preface; 1. Some Medieval Islamic Approaches to Source Material: The Evidence of a 12th- Century Chronicle; 2. A neglected episode of the Reconquista: a Christian success in the Second Crusade; 3. Jihad Propaganda in Syria from the Time of the First Crusade until the Death of Zengi: The Evidence of Monumental Inscriptions; 4. The First Crusade: the Muslim perspective; 5. Abominable acts: the career of Zengi; 6. SULTANATES: Ayyubids; 7. Some Reflections on the Imprisonment of Reynald of Chatillon; 8. Some reflections on the use of the Qur’an in monumental inscriptions in Syria and Palestine in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries; 9. The legacy of the Crusades; 10. The Evolution of the Saladin Legend in the West; 11. Ayyubids; 12. Ayyubid Jerusalem – A Historical Introduction; 13. Jihad poetry in the Age of the Crusades; 14. The Shi‘is of Aleppo in the Zengid period: some unexploited textual and epigraphic evidence; 15. A short history of jihad; 16. Muslim Jerusalem, the Crusades, and the career of Saladin; 17. The Holy Land in the Crusader and Ayyubid periods, 1099-1250; 18. The Assassins in Fact and Fiction. The Old Man of the Mountain; 19. Saladin’s spin doctors; 20. The sultan, the Kaiser, the colonel and the purloined wreath; Original Sources and Page Numbers of the Items in this Volume; Index.