posted 08-16-2000 04:19 PM            

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For everyone interested in Middle Eastern castles, try to get your hands on the following book:
'Castles and Churches of the Crusading Kingdom' by TSR. Boase with photographs by Richard Cleave, Oxford University Press, 1967.
It contains really great color pictures, maps and drawings of a lot of Middle Eastern castles.

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[This message has been edited by Marko (edited 10-30-2001).]

posted 08-17-2000 04:02 AM            

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Well, again a question of definitions. For what is a christian and what is an arab castle. A lot of castles were built by the christians but overtaken by arabs who altered them to their own likings and possessed them for a longer period then the christians.
The book however covers 16 castles in more detail and images and some 20 castles in less detail. It gives floorplans for 5 castles.
The areas it describes are of course the areas involved in the crusades; Israel, Lebanon, Syria, a small piece of southern-east Turkey and a little piece of Jordania (or is it spelled Jordan?)
To give you an idea of the castles described and pictured in the book I posted two pictures in the COTW Picture Archive.

[This message has been edited by Marko (edited 10-30-2001).]

posted 08-17-2000 04:03 PM         

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A thank you to Marko! I posted a question asking for resources for plans and information regarding Saracen castles in the Middle East the other day in the Plans forum. I am glad I decided to browse this one, as this book looks like just the thing.

Grateful thanks!
Cthulhu