Сражение при Синнабре в свете христианских и мусульманских источников
The Battle of Sinabra in the Light of Christian and Muslim Sources

Summary/Abstract: This article examines the battle of Sinnabra between Mawdud, atabeg of Mosul, and Baldwin I, the king of Jerusalem, on 28 June 1113. According to most modern scholars of the Crusades, near Sinnabra the Franks were lured into an ambush set for them by Mawdud, suffered a defeat and then retreated to Tiberias. This reconstruction is based on reports of western chroniclers and, first of all, on the account of Fulcher of Chartres who was a contemporary. However, Muslim sources, especially Damascus chronicler Ibn al-Qalanisi, a contemporary like Fulcher, report no information on the ambush. The Muslim authors consider the battle of Sinnabra as a chance encounter between Frankish and Muslim armies. A closer examination of the sources has disclosed that the ambush, ostensibly made by the Muslims near Sinnabra, is nothing more that a part of the Latin narrative of the battle. It was accepted by the scholars because they attached too much credence to western sources and because the chronicle of Ibn al-Qalanisi was discovered and published only in the first half of the 20th century, when the ambush near Sinnabra was considered a true episode of the campaign of 1113 (R. Röhricht, W. Stevenson, R. Grousset).

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