The Ayyubids:

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1. Abū Shāma, `Abd al-Rahmān b. Ismā`īl(1203-67). Kitāb al-Raudatayn fī Akhbār al-Daulatayn. 2 Vols. Cairo: 1870.
2. Benjamin of Tudela. The Travels, 1160-73. Trans. and edited by M. Komroff. London: 1928.
3. Ehrenkreuz, Andrew S. Saladin. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1972.
4. Eliséef, N. Nur ad-Din un grand prince musulman de Syrie au tempds des croisades (511-569/1118-1174) 3 vols. Damascus: 1967.
5. Gib, H.A.R. "The Arabic Sources for the Life of Saladin," Speculum, 25(1950): 58-74.
6. ________. "The Career of Nur al-Din." In Setton, K. ed., History of the Crusades. Pennsylvania: 1969.
7. ________. The Life of Saladin. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1973.
8. Humphreys, R. S. From Saladin to the Mongols: The Ayyubids of Damascus. Albany: SUNY Press, 1977.
9. Ibn al-Athīr, `Alī b. Muhammad (1160-1233). al- Kāmil fī ta'r&9circ;kh, 12 Vols. Edited by C. J. Tornberg. Repr. Beirut: 1965.
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11. _________. Al- Ta'rīkh al-Bāhir fī'l Daulat Atābaākīya. (History of the Atabegs). Edited by A. A. Tolaymat. Cairo: n.d.
12. Ibn al-Jubayr, Muhammad b.Ahmad. (1145-1217). The Travels. Trans. R. J. C. Broadbent. London: 1952.
13. Ibn Khallikān (1211-82). Biographical Dictionary. 4 vols. Trans. Baron M. de Slane. London: 1843-71.
14. Ibn Qalanisi (1070-1160). The Damascus Chronicle of the Crusades. Edited by H. A. R. Gibb. London: 1932.
15. Ibn Shaddād, Bahā' al-Dîn Yūs&uf b. Rāfi`. Al Nawādir al-Sultānīya Sīrat Salah al-Dīn. Edited by J. al-Shayyāl, Cairo:1962.
16. `Imād al-Dīn, Muhammad b. Muhammad, al-Kātib al-Isfahānī(1125-1201), Al-Barq al-Shāmī. Abridged by al-Bundārī, Fath b. `Alī. Edited by F. El- Nabarawy. Cairo: 1979.
17. Lambton, A. K. S. "Reflections on the Iqta," Arabic and Islamic Studies in Honour of Hamilton A. R. Gibb. Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1965.
18. Lapidus, Ira M. Muslim Cities in the Later Middle Ages. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1967.
19. Little, D. P. "The Fall of `Akka in 690/1291." M. Sharon, ed., Studies in Islamic History and Civilization in Honour of Prof. David Ayalon. Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1986.
20. Lyons, M. C. and Jackson D. E. P. Saladin: The Politics of the Holy War Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1982.
21. Lyons, U. and M. C. and Riley Smith, J. Ayyubids, Mamlukes and Crusaders. Cambridge: Heffer, 1971.
22. Newby, P. H. Saladin in His Time. London: Faber and Faber, 1983.
23. Nizam al-Mulk(1018-92). The Book of Government. Trans. H. Darke. London: 1960.
24. Rabie, H. The Financial System of Egypt, 1169-1341. Oxford University Press, 1972.
25. Usamah b. Munqidh. Kitāb al-I`tibār. Translated by Philip K. Hitti as The Memoirs of Usamah b. Munqidh: An Arab Syrian Gentleman and Warrior. New York: Columbia University Press, 1929.
26. William of Tyre (1137-85). A History of Deeds Done Beyond the Sea. 2 Vols. Trans. E. A. Babcock and A.C. Krey. New York: 1953.

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