Infidel Dogs: Hunting Crusaders with Usama ibn Munqidh¹

¹Versions of this paper were presented at the conference “Crusading, and Against Whom?” held at Middlebury College on 4 October 2004, and at the Notre Dame History Faculty Colloquium in September 2004. I would like to thank the panelists and audience members at both venues for their feedback and criticisms, in particular this journal’s anonymous reviewer, who supplied some valuable references. The faults that remain are entirely my own. Some of the ideas expressed here appear in other forms in Paul M. Cobb, Usama ibn Munqidh: Warrior-Poet of the Age of Crusades (Oxford, 2006).

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¹ Versions of this paper were presented at the conference “Crusading, and Against Whom?” held at Middlebury College on 4 October 2004, and at the Notre Dame History Faculty Colloquium in September 2004. I would like to thank the panelists and audience members at both venues for their feedback and criticisms, in particular this journal’s anonymous reviewer, who supplied some valuable references. The faults that remain are entirely my own. Some of the ideas expressed here appear in other forms in Paul M. Cobb, Usama ibn Munqidh: Warrior-Poet of the Age of Crusades (Oxford, 2006).