AB#2 Topics: From Early Medieval era c. 1000s AD up to the beginning of the Modern Era c. 1550s AD Annotated Bibliography #2 Requirements:Must have 4-6 academic sources (NO: Textbooks, Book Reviews, N

Sample Annotated Bibliography

Name

Class

Annotated Bibliography #

All books should be cited:

Author, Title, where (city) published, publisher, date.

Lewis, Bernard. The Assassins: A Radical Sect in Islam. New York: Basic Books, 1968. 2003.

In this book Lewis gives a detailed but brief history of the Assassins, Ismaili Shia Islamic sect. He shows how these men interacted with their rival Muslims and the Frankish Crusaders. He gives as much detail as is possible on their secret recruitment, missionary work, and on their political assassinations. The book does a good job illustrating how complex the politics of the Crusader era was. The Assassins and other Muslims made pacts with each other and on occasion with Crusaders against their Islamic rivals.

Seward, Desmond. The Monks of War: The Military Religious Orders. London: Penguin Books, 1972.

1995.

In this book Seward details the major religious military orders such as: the Templars, Hospitallers, Teutonic Order, and several Spanish military orders. He also gives a great description of the various Crusades in the Middle East and Europe. He details how culture and trade were spread between Muslims and Christians as well as the fighting that went on for more than 200 years. Parts of the book are dedicated to the Eastern Crusades of Prussia and Lithuania prosecuted by the Teutonic Order. Then he covers the Reconquista and the Spanish Military Orders. The book is a comprehensive study of all the military orders up to the present time.

Waterson, James. The Knights of Islam: The Wars of the Mamluks. St. Paul, MN: MBI Publishing, 2007.

Waterson describes the Mamluk slave warriors of Islamic Egypt, from their capture or sale into slavery, through the stages of their training and conversion to Islam. He explains why Turkish slaves were used by all the Islamic empires for their elite mounted heavy cavalry and mounted archery tactics. He details their training process that lasted for at least decade which made these particular slaves the most potent weapon in the arsenal of Islamic states before, during and after the Crusades. He covers the Mamluk Sultanate in Egypt where these slaves overthrew their masters and became kings themselves. This was the state that ultimately defeated the European Crusaders and the invading Mongol armies.

You do not separate articles and books -I just did so to show you how different they look when cited.

An article would be cited thus:

Author. “Title of Article”. Title of Academic Journal, vol. #. All Pg. #s. Date. Published by.

Bacharach, Jere L. “African Military Slaves in the Medieval Middle East: The Cases of Iraq (869-955)

and Egypt (868-1171)”: International Journal of Middle East Studies, Vol. 13, No. 4 (Nov., 1981), pp. 471-495, Published by Cambridge University Press.

Then annotate with a paragraph…

Yaacov Lev. “Army, Regime, and Society in Fatimid Egypt, 358-487/968-1094”. International

Journal of Middle East Studies, Vol. 19, No. 3 (Aug. 1987), pp. 337-365.

Published by: Cambridge University Press.

Then annotate the article here…