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Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1987), pp. 161-169. 1. Usamah ibn-Munqidh Describes the Franks Their lack of sense.-Mysterious are the works of the Creator, the author of al When one comes to recount cases regarding the Franks,15 he cannot but glorify Allah (exalted is he!) and sanctify him, for he sees them as animals pos- sessing the virtues of courage and fighting, but nothing else; just as animals have only the virtues of strength and carrying loads. I shall now give some in- stances of their doings and theif curious mentality. In the army of King Fulk, son of Fulk, was a Frankish reverend knight who had just arrived from their land in order to make the holy pilgrimage and then return home. He was of my intimate fellowship and kept such constant com pany with me that he began to call me "my brother" Between us were mutual bonds of amity and friendship. When he resolved to return by sea to his home- land, he said to me: My brother, I am leaving for my country and I want thee to send with me thy son (my son, who was then fourteen years old, was at that time in my company) to our country, where he can see the knights and learn wisdom and chivalry. Wher he returns, he will be like a wise man. Thus there fell upon my ears words which would never come out of the head of a sensible man; for even if my son were to be taken captive, his captivity could not bring him a worse misfortune than carrying him into the lands of the Franks. However, I said to the man: By thy life, this has exactly been my idea. But the only thing that prevented me from carrying it out was the fact that his grandmother, my mother, is so fond of him and did not this time let him come out with me until she exacted an oath from me to the effect that I would return him to her Thereupon he asked, "Is thy mother still alive?" "Yes," replied. "Well,"said he, "disobey her not."... 15. Most Muslims called all the crusaders "Franks" even though they knew full well that they were not all French.

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Answer: In the above text, the author is trying to portray Christians as persons with less reasoning ability, cruel, and man having animal instincts. According to him, Christians are arrogant. Humbleness is the sign of sensible man and the knight in "their lack of sense" was very arrogant, that's why he is trying to portray that Christians are not sensible and they are arrogant.

In "their curious medicine", the author wants to convey that the majority population of Christians superstitious and ignorant. When the Christian physician was performing, no-one stopped him even though he was harming the patient, instead they were helping him to perform his bad deeds. Here, the author wants to convey that the Christian lacks the sense to choose between the right and the wrong, and lack the understanding of medicine.

In another two story, the author wants to depict Christians as blasphemous, people with lack of judgement, and cruel. As god is unseen according to Muslims, he considers Christian belief on pictures and statues as idiotic.

Overall, the author is proposing that Muslims have a pure god and they are far superior to the Christians in any sense or field through a set of stories.

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