Dr. Jamal M.h. AlZanki

The author has been intrigued by the phenomenon of Latin women’s involvement in the East, in matters of politics and governance, during the first sixty years of the Crusaders’ presence in the Islamic East. The Crusader women did not actively seek involvement in politics or compete with men for rule. Instead, they found themselves inadvertently entangled in a complex web. The persistence of the Kings of Jerusalem in asserting their authority over all Crusader entities in the Islamic East provided the gateway for Crusader women to assume political leadership through means such as political marriages. In this novel, the author adopted an approach that combines elements of a novel and a play. The author narrated the events through the voices of the Crusader characters themselves. He tried his best to be objective, especially since the novel is relevant to the Crusaders, the opponents of Muslims.