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Roots of Oral Tradition in The Arabian Nights
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An Unknown Aspect in the Life of Al-Jahiz
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EROTIC IMAGERY IN CLASSICAL ARABIC POETRY
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Sunset in the Gardens of al-Andalus
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Women before the qāḍī under the Abbasids
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“No, this is not its name”: Anatomy of the Joke Women Teach Men in the Thousand and One Nights
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A Multidisciplinary Investigation of Medieval Flamethrowers: A Case Study
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An investigation and analysis of the activities of the Knights Templar in the North-East, specifically the Cleveland area, that provides an additional comment on the current historiography
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Crusaders and Historians
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The great crusader hero: Louis IX or Joinville?
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Crusades and Jihads: A Long-Run Economic Perspective
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Expeditio persica of Heraclius: Holy War or Crusade?
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Saint Peter and Paul Church (Sinan Pasha Mosque), Famagusta: A Forgotten Gothic Moment in Northern Cyprus
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FROM THE STATELY TO THE SMUTTY: SHIFTING PERCEPTIONS OF THE CRUSADES IN AN ILLUMINATED CHRONICLE
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Rereading the Crusades: An Introduction
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“A Vile, Infamous, Diabolical Treaty”: The Franco-Ottoman Alliance of Francis I and the Eclipse of the Christendom Ideal
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‘Clash of Civilizations’, Crusades, Knights and Ottomans: an Analysis of Christian-Muslim Interaction in the Mediterranean
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EMBARGO: THE ORIGINS OF AN IDEA AND THE IMPLICATIONS OF A POLICY IN EUROPE AND THE MEDITERRANEAN, ca. 1100 – ca. 1500
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We’re on a Mission from God: A Translation, Commentary, and Essay Concerning The Hierosolymita by Ekkehard of Aura
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Prester John: Fiction and History
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Funduq, Fondaco, and Khan in the Wake of Christian Commerce and Crusade
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Latins and Franks in Byzantium: Perception and Reality from the Eleventh to the Twelfth Century
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The “Wild Beast from the West”: Immediate Literary Reactions in Byzantium to the Second Crusade
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