I am in an Honors World History class, and we are learning about the Middle Ages. Specifically right now, the crusades. However it seems like we’re only getting the European perspective. Anyone care to provide Arabian, Muslim, or Turkish accounts? It would go a long way in helping me understand the conflicts.
Sure! Assuming you are looking for books in English, here are some good places to start:
Paul M. Cobb, The Race for Paradise: an Islamic History of the Crusades (Oxford University Press, 2014)
Niall Christie, Muslims and Crusaders: Christianity's Wars in the Middle East, 1095-1382, from the Islamic Sources (Routledge, 2014)
Carole Hillenbrand, The Crusades: Islamic Perspectives (Routledge, 1999)
Angeliki E. Laiou, and Roy Parviz Mottahedeh, eds., The Crusades from the Perspective of Byzantium and the Muslim World (Dumbarton Oaks, 2001)
And for translated excerpts from primary sources:
Francesco Gabrieli, Arab Historians of the Crusades, trans. E. J. Costello (University of California Press, 1969)