# The Book of Contemplation

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- Book: [The Book of Contemplation](https://www.bookquiver.com/usama-ibn-munqidh/the-book-of-contemplation) ([The Book of Contemplation.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/usama-ibn-munqidh/the-book-of-contemplation.md))
- Authors: [Usama ibn Munqidh](https://www.bookquiver.com/usama-ibn-munqidh)
- Publisher: Penguin
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-01-4191-917-1
- Published: 2008-07-03
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: E-book

## Description

The volume comprises lightly annotated translation of a key medieval Arabic text that bears directly on the Crusades and Crusader society and the Muslim experience of them.