>"The Franks are void of all zeal and jealousy. One of them may be walking along with his wife. He meets another man who takes the wife by the hand and steps aside to converse with her while the husband is standing on one side waiting for his wife to conclude the conversation. If she lingers too long for him, he leaves her alone with the conversant and goes away.
>Here is an illustration which I myself witnessed:
>When I used to visit Nablus, I always took lodging with a man named Mu'izz, whose home was a lodging house for the Muslims. The house had windows which opened to the road, and there stood opposite to it on the other side of the road a house belonging to a Frank who sold wine for the merchants. He would take some wine in a bottle and go around announcing it by shouting, "So and so, the merchant, has just opened a cask full of this wine. He who wants to buy some of it will find it in such and such a place." The Frank's pay for the announcement made would be the wine in that bottle. One day this Frank went home and found a man with his wife in the same bed. He asked him, "What could have made you enter into my wife's room?" The man replied, "I was tired, so I went in to rest." "But how," asked he, "didst thou get into my bed?" The other replied, "I found a bed that was spread, so I slept in it." "But," said be, "my wife was sleeping together with you!" The other replied, "Well, the bed is hers. How could I therefore have prevented her from using her own bed?"
>"By the truth of my religion," said the husband, "if thou shouldst do it again, thou and I would have a quarrel." Such was for the Frank the entire expression of his disapproval and the limit of his jealousy. . . .
--From the autobiography of Usmah Ibn Munqidh (1095-1188 CE/AD)
So europeans were always cucks?
>french people
TOPKEK
(Franks are French right? history is too gay for me to know)
>>53240171
Yes but the Arabs and Asians refer all Western Europeans as "franks"
>>53240100
I don't why these middle age stories, written in this olde butcherede english, always make me laugh
>>53240100
It's called being civilised.
>>53240171
Back then for Muslims Frank meant all of the Europeans.
>>53240171
>>53240235
>>53240345
Western Europe itself was just called "Franjistan" or "Land of the Franks"
Which isn't entirely inaccurate considering the spread of Germanic tribes like the Franks.
>>53240100
MYSTERIOUS are the works of the Creator, the author of all things! When one comes to recount cases regarding the Franks, he cannot but glorify Allah (exalted is he!) and sanctify him, for he sees them as animals possessing 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 instances of their doings and their 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 company 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 homeland, he said to me:
"My brother, I am leaving for my country and I want you to send with me your 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. When 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 your 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 your mother still alive?"
"Yes," I replied.
"Well," said he, "disobey her not."
>you will never have this sort of relationship with crusaders.
>>53240100
Wait, what's the big issue here? That the Franks allowed their women to talk to other men outside of their presence?
>>53240171
Najib, back2Morocco.
>>53240745
>My feet hurt
>I wish my wife would talk to me like that
>I could be killing infidels right now
>I hope she finishes soon
>Maybe she'll share her bed with me tonight
>>53240171
>Browses the International board
>Is a European
>Can't be bothered to learn basic European History
Jesus Christ, go back to Reddit, Aquafresh.
