Ayyubid Jerusalem : the holy city in context 1187-1250 / edited by Robert Hillenbrand and Sylvia Auld.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 471-500) and index.

Ayyubid Jerusalem : a historical introduction / Carole Hillenbrand -- The art of the Ayyubids : an overview / Robert Hillenbrand -- Cross-currents and coincidences : a perspective on Ayyubid metalwork / Sylvia Auld -- The minbar of Nur Al-Din in context / Sylvia Auld -- The wooden balustrade in the Sakhra / Sylvia Auld -- The power of the word : Ayyubid inscriptions in Jerusalem / Sheila S. Blair -- Woodwork in Syria, Palestine and Egypt during the 12th and 13th century / Jonathan M. Bloom -- Smaller domes in the Haram Al-Sharif reconsidered in light of a recent survey / Michael Hamilton Burgoyne -- Ayyubid illustrated manuscripts and their north Jaziran and Abbasid neighbours / Anna Contadini -- Religious circles in Jerusalem in the Ayyubid period / Anne-Marie Eddé -- An ambiguous aesthetic : crusader Spolia in Ayyubid Jerusalem / Finbarr Barry Flood -- Ayyubid monuments in Jerusalem / Mahmoud Hawari -- Economic growth and currency in Ayyubid Palestine / Stefan Heidemann -- The Ayyubid Aqsa : decorative aspects / Robert Hillenbrand -- Eastern Christian art and culture in the Ayyubid and early Mamluk periods : cultural convergence between Jerusalem, Greater Syria and Egypt / Lucy-Anne Hunt -- Qur'ans and calligraphers of the Ayyubids and Zangids / David James -- From monastic cloisters to Sahn : the transformation of the open space of the Masjid Al-Aqsa under Saladin / Sabri Jarrah -- Ayyubid mosaics in Jerusalem / Lorenz Korn -- Ayyubid Jerusalem in perspective : the context of Ayyubid architecture in Bilad Al-Sham / Lorenz Korn -- The pottery of Ayyubid Jerusalem / Marcus Milwright -- Science as the handmaiden of power : science, art and technology in Ayyubid Syria / Martina Müller-Wiener -- Ayyubid architecture in Cairo / Bernard O'Kane -- The people of the book / Johannes Pahlitzsch -- Biographies of Ayyubid Sultans / D.S. Richards -- Ibn Wasil, historian of the Ayyubids / D.S. Richards -- An image of what once was : the Ayyubid fortifications of Jerusalem / Yasser Tabbaa.