Dialogical Warfare Figurations Of Pious Belligerence Among Christian Muslim And Jewish Authors In The Crusading Near East

During the late Middle Ages the Near East was a major crossroad where Muslims, Jews, and Christians, representing a large variety of spiritual dispositions, speaking different languages, and sharing the same space, had multiple opportunities for mutually defining cultural interactions. Indeed, with the continuous stream of immigrants from both east and west living among and maintaining frequent contacts with their neighbors, this region emerged as a space abundant with meaningful, if not always peaceful, exchange among members of different communities.