The Crusades Through Arab Eyes (Saqi Essentials) by Maalouf Amin

Author:Maalouf, Amin [Maalouf, Amin]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
ISBN: 9780863568480
Publisher: Perseus Books Group
Published: 2012-07-14T13:00:00+00:00

If I do not rush to Nūr al-Dīn’s aid, the emir said, he will strip me of my domain, for he has already written to the devotees and ascetics to request the aid of their prayers and to encourage them to incite the Muslims to jihād. At this very moment, each of these men sits with his disciples and companions reading Nūr al-Dīn’s letters, weeping and cursing me. If I am to avoid anathema, I must accede to his request.

Nūr al-Dīn supervised his corps of propagandists personally. He would commission poems, letters, and books, and always took care that they were released at the time when they would produce the desired effect. The principles he preached were simple: a single religion, Sunni Islam, which meant a determined struggle against all the various ‘heresies’; a single state that would encircle the Franj on all fronts; a single objective, jihād, to reconquer the occupied territories and above all to liberate Jerusalem. During his 28-year reign, Nūr al-Dīn would call upon various ‘ulamā’ to write treatises hailing the merits of al-Quds, the holy city, and public readings were organized in the mosques and schools.

On these occasions, no one ever omitted to eulogize the supreme mujāhid, the irreproachable Muslim Nūr al-Dīn. But this cult of the personality was unusually effective and clever in that it was based, paradoxically, on the humility and austerity of the son of Zangī.

According to Ibn al-Athīr:

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