Drawn from greater Syria, northern Mesopotamia, and Egypt, the sources in this anthology—many of which are translated into English for the first time here—provide eyewitness and contemporary historical accounts of what unfolded in the eastern Mediterranean and the Near East between the eleventh and fourteenth centuries. Despite their importance, the Muslim sources remain relatively marginal in the way the general history of the Crusader period is written as most Crusades historians are understandably trained in the numerous requisite European languages and not Arabic. Consequently, the European sources tend to dominate the narrative apart from the relatively few Arabic chronicles that have been translated into English or other European languages. This anthology is an attempt to bring to light a disparate selection of sources that introduce the student of Crusades history to a more complex understanding of the Crusades and the interactions between Franks and Muslims—which ranged from animosity to amity—in the broader context of Islamic history.