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	Usama Ibn Munqidh
The Syrian writer and warrior Usama Ibn Munqidh lived from 1095 until his death during the peak of Saladin's triumphs in 1188. During his life he had extensive contact with crusaders in the Holy Land, befriending some of them, as well as close connections with the Amirs of Syria and Caliphs of Egypt. His primary work most useful to students of the crusades is his autobiography, Kitab al-I tibar, of which the surviving manuscript is incomplete and dates to around 1175. [Continued...] For selections of the work see Francesco Gabrieli. Arab Historians of the Crusades. University of California Press, 1969. Gabrieli's work pulls its version of the text from H. Derenbourg. Ousama ibn Mounkidh. Un emir syrien au premier siecle des Croisades, I, Paris, 1893, pp. 528-29.
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