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In a an entry [3/9] you asked about muslim women warriors. I'm a history teacher. While I don't read Arabic, I do read Latin & Greek and did my graduate level historiography class on the Crusades [the instructor's subject, mine was classical Greece & Rome]. While there are several mentions of women warriors defending the camp during the early Islamic wars of conquest [c. late 700s AD] the only reference I know of during the Crusades [early on] was in Usāmah Ibn Munqidh's works. He mentions 2 that I remember but he was given to telling interesting tales and not always reliable. Few Arabic chronicles or memoirs of the Crusading period are available, most of those in French [as was Munqidh's]. He was a warrior in Egyptian [Fatimid - later Ayyubite] service.
In a an entry [3/9] you asked about muslim women warriors. I'm a history teacher. While I don't read Arabic, I do read Latin & Greek and did my graduate level historiography class on the Crusades [the instructor's subject, mine was classical Greece & Rome]. While there are several mentions of women warriors defending the camp during the early Islamic wars of conquest [c. late 700s AD] the only reference I know of during the Crusades [early on] was in Usāmah Ibn Munqidh's works. He mentions 2 that I remember but he was given to telling interesting tales and not always reliable. Few Arabic chronicles or memoirs of the Crusading period are available, most of those in French [as was Munqidh's]. He was a warrior in Egyptian [Fatimid - later Ayyubite] service.
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