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Ibn Nafs World-History

This book is the first translated and annotated edition of Ibn Nafs Al-Trkh al-Manr. Totaling 227 folios, the manuscript is a unique and valuable source full of historical accounts and anecdotes. The documents include two letters by the Emperor Frederick II in Arabic, as well as the only mention of the Albigensian Crusade in the Arabic language. Other notable material includes Ibn Nafs notes concerning the rivalries between the various Ayybids and the wars against Jall al-Dn Mangubirt, descriptions of the Ayybids in Yemen, and notes on the destruction of the Sicilian Muslims and the defeats of the Spanish Muslims. Containing an extensive historical introduction, this book will appeal to scholars and students interested in the later Crusader and middle Ayybid periods.

David Cook is Professor of Religion at Rice University, USA.

Crusade Texts in Translation

Editorial Board

Peter Edbury (Cardiff), Norman Housley (Leicester),

Peter Jackson (Keele)

The crusading movement, which originated in the 11th century and lasted beyond the 16th, bequeathed to its future historians a legacy of sources which are unrivaled in their range and variety. These sources document in fascinating detail the motivations and viewpoints, military efforts and spiritual lives, of the participants in the crusades. They also narrate the internal histories of the states and societies which crusaders established or supported in the many regions where they fought. Some of these sources have been translated in the past but the vast majority have been available only in their original language. The goal of this series is to provide a wide-ranging corpus of texts, most of them translated for the first time, which will illuminate the history of the crusades and the crusader-states from every angle, including that of their principal adversaries, the Muslim powers of the Middle East.

Titles in the series include:

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Chronicles of Qalwn and his son al-Ashraf Khall

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Baybars Successors

Keagan Brewer and James H. Kane

The Conquest of the Holy Land by al al-Dn

Graham Loud

The Chronicle of Arnold of Lbeck

Carol Sweetenham

The Chanson des Chtifs and Chanson de Jrusalem

Anne Van Arsdall and Helen Moody

The Old French Chronicle of Morea

David Cook

Ibn Nafs World-History: Al-Trkh al-Manr

Ibn Nafs World-History

Al-Trkh al-Manr

Translated by David Cook

First published 2021

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British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data

A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Hamaw, Muhammad ibn Al, active 13th century. |
1 Cook, David, 1966- transla

Title: Ibn Nazfs world-history: Al-Tarkh al-Mansur /
translated by David Cook.

Other titles: Kashf wa-al-bayan f hawadith al-zaman.

English Description: First edition. | New York : Routledge, 2021. |
Series: Crusade texts in translation |
Includes bibliographical references and index.

Identifiers: LCCN 2020031119 (print) | LCCN 202003 (ebook) |
ISBN 9780367623555 (hardback) | ISBN 9781003109075 (ebook)

Subjects: LCSH: 0 Islamic EmpireHistory750-1

Classification: LCC DS97.3 .H3513 2021 (print) |
LCC DS97.3 (ebook) | DDC 956/.01dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2020031119

LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2020031120

ISBN: 978-0-367-62355-5 (hbk)

ISBN: 978-1-003-10907-5 (ebk)

Typeset in Times

by Newgen Publishing UK

To my sister, Kim Andrusko:

thanks for all the work you put in

Contents

Ibn Naf (ca. 593/1196633/1234), while not a major historian of the middle Ayybid period, is an almost unique voice of central and north Syria during his time. There are many Ayybid court-historians focusing upon events in Egypt, and for the period following Ibn Naf there would be both Damascus- and Aleppo-based historians. However, all of these later historians would be heavily influenced by the Mongol invasions, usually seeing these invasions as the primary danger facing Islam. Other than Ibn Naf there is no Syrian historian who gives us the perspective of a point in time when the Mongols were a distant danger, but not an immediate menace.

My interest in Ibn Naf has stemmed from a desire to publicize hitherto unknown or underutilized sources on Syrian history. Ibn Naf fits this criterion exactly, as neither his Russian facsimile edition (from 1963) nor his partial edited version (from 1981) have attracted much attention. This lack of attention in one sense is understandable, as Ibn Naf is disorganized, written in a difficult-to-understand style, and for the most part distanced from the centers of power. When writing histories of the Crusades, or of the Ayybids, it is much easier to utilize court-historians whose access to the centers of power, and to documents, is much greater than that of Ibn Naf.

However, Ibn Naf is still able to bring perspectives and even documents that other historians of his time and later are unable to cite. For this reason alone, his text is worth a close inspection and a translation.

I would like to acknowledge the help of my best friend, Deborah Tor, in this translation. She has frequently helped me to figure out difficult matters in the text, and to identify problems. My thanks also to Michael Decker, who has helped me with the Byzantine and Greek connections. Yaron Friedman helped me with the questions about the NusayriAlbigensian connection. Nicholas Morton read over the entire text and made a number of valuable identifications and corrections. Waleed Rikab assisted me with the reading of some of the difficult sections of the manuscript (full details at the end of the introduction). All mistakes are my own responsibility.

The Trkh al-Manr (=TM) of Ibn Naf (d. ca. 631/1234) is one of the more intriguing minor histories from the middle Ayybid period. Ostensibly,

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