Popular Muslim Reactions to the Franks in the Levant, 10971291 by Alex Mallett;

Author:Alex Mallett; [Mallett, Alex]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781317077978
Publisher: Taylor & Francis (Unlimited)
Published: 2016-06-15T00:00:00+00:00

31 Al-‘Aẓīmī, p. 369; Caffaro of Genoa, De Liberatione Civitatum Orientis, ed. Luigi T. Belgrano in Luigi T. Belgrano and Cesare Imperiale (eds), Annali Genovesi di Caffaro e de’suoi Continuatori, 5 vols (Rome, 1890–1929), vol. I, pp. 99–124, pp. 99–100. 32 Kirakos Gandzakets‘i, p. 129. Thus, while the Franks would look on such attacks as being directed against them, as part of a religious war, they could be directed against anybody, as they had been for centuries. Attacks on travellers in the medieval Middle East were not rare. In the parable of the Good Samaritan, for example, which was written down over a millennium before the Crusades, Christ specifically had the victim walk the road between Jerusalem and Jericho, as it was well known to be full of robbers and bandits. Daniel the Abbot’s comment that the Muslims on the route from Samaria to Bashan attacked ‘travellers’ may suggest that there was an awareness that it was not just Latin pilgrims but anyone who could be targeted. The evidence suggests that some attacks were religiously motivated, while others were caused more by greed. The woman from Nablus referred to by Usāma b. Munqidh, who killed Frankish pilgrims, seems to have had at least some religious motive for her actions, as does evidence from popular tales, such as that in the Sīrat Baībars,33 while the woman from Shaīzar seems to have been motivated more by greed.

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