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Osama ibn Munqidh ( 1095 - 1188 AC ) was a medieval Muslim poet, author, faris (knight), and diplomat from the Banu Munqidh dynasty of Shaizar in northern Syria. His life coincided with the rise of several medieval Muslim dynasties, the arrival of the First Crusade, and the establishment of the crusader states.
He is famous of his book Kitab al-I'tibar: The Book of Learning. The book is about Osamah's autobiography. Much of the autobiography addresses the material culture of the time. There is much detail on military society as Osama was involved in many battles against Christians and fellow Muslims, including attitudes towards the Christian crusaders.
The book was translated to European languages:
Attitudes towards the west:
The autobiography gives us details of Muslim attitudes towards the Christian crusaders who went to the Middle East. His views of the Franks can reveal the impression Muslims had at the time about the nature of their own society compared to the Franks' society, for example when he describes the lack of jealousy in sexual affairs. To a conservative Muslim this must have seemed shocking. He mentions in his books several stories about this that he witnessed or heard through his contact with them. Osama said:
They have nothing of pride and jealousy, a man among them walks with his wife, another man meets him, takes the woman and flirts with her, and the husband is standing by waiting for her to finish talking, and if she takes a long time, he leaves her with the speaker and goes away.
France ( the homeland of the Franks ) became later the first nation that celebrated Cuckoldry.
French satirical print depicting cuckolds (bearing the customary horns) 'celebrating' the "grand family of honorable cuckolds of all nations" before a female personification of infidelity.
Another example is his ridicule of the Frankish system of justice. He gives a couple of examples; The first is a description of a duel to settle a dispute and the second is a man being dropped into a cask of water. If the man drowned he was innocent and if he floated he was guilty:
This man did his best to sink when they dropped him into the water, but he could not do it. So he had to submit to their sentence against him -may Allah's curse be upon them!
This would have contrasted dramatically with the contemporary Muslim judicial procedure. Osama views Islamic society and learning as superior to that of the Franks. For example, when a Frankish knight offers to take his son to his country to educate him in wisdom and chivalry, he refuses:
Thus there fell upon my ears words which would never come out of the head of a sensible man; for even if my son were to be taken captive, his captivity could not bring him a worse misfortune than carrying him into the lands of the Franks.
The western system of justice even today still cucked. Men have no rights!
He is famous of his book Kitab al-I'tibar: The Book of Learning. The book is about Osamah's autobiography. Much of the autobiography addresses the material culture of the time. There is much detail on military society as Osama was involved in many battles against Christians and fellow Muslims, including attitudes towards the Christian crusaders.
The book was translated to European languages:
Attitudes towards the west:
The autobiography gives us details of Muslim attitudes towards the Christian crusaders who went to the Middle East. His views of the Franks can reveal the impression Muslims had at the time about the nature of their own society compared to the Franks' society, for example when he describes the lack of jealousy in sexual affairs. To a conservative Muslim this must have seemed shocking. He mentions in his books several stories about this that he witnessed or heard through his contact with them. Osama said:
They have nothing of pride and jealousy, a man among them walks with his wife, another man meets him, takes the woman and flirts with her, and the husband is standing by waiting for her to finish talking, and if she takes a long time, he leaves her with the speaker and goes away.
France ( the homeland of the Franks ) became later the first nation that celebrated Cuckoldry.
French satirical print depicting cuckolds (bearing the customary horns) 'celebrating' the "grand family of honorable cuckolds of all nations" before a female personification of infidelity.
Another example is his ridicule of the Frankish system of justice. He gives a couple of examples; The first is a description of a duel to settle a dispute and the second is a man being dropped into a cask of water. If the man drowned he was innocent and if he floated he was guilty:
This man did his best to sink when they dropped him into the water, but he could not do it. So he had to submit to their sentence against him -may Allah's curse be upon them!
This would have contrasted dramatically with the contemporary Muslim judicial procedure. Osama views Islamic society and learning as superior to that of the Franks. For example, when a Frankish knight offers to take his son to his country to educate him in wisdom and chivalry, he refuses:
Thus there fell upon my ears words which would never come out of the head of a sensible man; for even if my son were to be taken captive, his captivity could not bring him a worse misfortune than carrying him into the lands of the Franks.
The western system of justice even today still cucked. Men have no rights!
