Excerpt from Chapter III: “…He [Zengy, Imad el Din] never allowed his armies to trample on the people’s crops – they marched, says the chronicler, “as it were, between two ropes,” – and no soldier was permitted to take even a truss of straw from a peasant without paying for it.”
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Illustration – Battle Between Crusaders and Kurbugha:
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Illustration – Astrological Calculator made by Mohammed Ibn Kutlukh of Mosil, A.H. 639:
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