The Intensification and Reorientation of Sunni Jihad Ideology in the Crusader Period: Ibn ʿasākir of Damascus (1105-1176) and His Age, with ... Jihad (Islamic History and Civilization)

The Intensification and Reorientation of Sunni Jihad Ideology provides an account of the preaching of a revitalized vision of jihad in Crusader-era Syria by Sunni scholars, including Ibn Askir, as a major propaganda tool of the Counter-Crusade and Sunni revival.