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It explains the letter’s content by comparing it with twelfth-century forms and conventions of Muslim–Christian diplomacy. It also places the letter in its historical context and evaluates whether it suggests a Frankish–Ayyūbid alliance between 1171 and 1174.","1174: A Letter of Condolence from Saladin to Baldwin IV of Jerusalem  \nEric Böhme  \nEric Böhme , 1174: A Letter of Condolence from Saladin to Baldwin IV of  \nJerusalem , in: Transmediterranean History 4.2 (2022) .  \nDOI: [https://doi.org/10.18148/tmh/2022.4.2.44](https://doi.org/10.18148/tmh/2022.4.2.44)  \nAbstract: The article analyses a letter of condolence from Saladin to King Baldwin IV of Jerusalem, on the death of King Amalric of Jerusalem in July 1174 , which has been preserved in al-Qalqašandī . The article follows two approaches: first, it explains the content of the letter by reference to twelfthcentury forms and conventions of Muslim–Christian diplomacy; second, it places the letter in its historical context and deliberates whether it points to a Frankish-Aiyyūbid alliance in the period between 1171 and 1174.  \nSource  \nal-Qalqašandī: Kitāb Ṣubḥ al-aʿšā fī ṣināʿat al-inšāʾ, ed. Muḥammad ʿAbd al-Rasūl Ibrāhīm, 14 vols, Cairo: Maṭbaʿa al-amīriyya, 1913–1922, vol. 7, pp. 115–116, trans. Eric Böhme.  \nأما بعد - خصَّ الله الملك المعظَّم حافظ بيتالمقدس بالجدِّ الصاعد، والسَّ عد الساعد، والحظِّالزائد، والتوفيق الوارد، وهنَأه من ملك قومه ماوُرِّثة، وأحسن من هداه فيما أتى به الدهرُوأحدثه،  \nAs for the following – may God grant the praised king, the protector of Jerusalem (ḥāfiẓ bayt almaqdis), with ever-increasing happiness, joyful bliss, lavish prosperity, and lasting success. May He make him happy with the inherited rule over his people (mulk qawmihi mā wurriṯa). May Hewho guides him lead him to the good that time brings and brings about.  \nفإن كتابنا صادرٌ إليه عند ورود الخبر بما ساءقلوبَ الأصادق، النَّعْ ىِّ الذى وَدِّدْ نا أنَّ قائله غيرُصادق، بالمَلِّك العادل الأعزِّ الذى لقَّاه الله خيرَْماَ لقَّى مثله، وبَلَّغ الأرضَ سعادته كما بلَّغه محلَّه،مُعَ زٍّ بما يجب فيه العَ زاء، ومتأسِّفٌ لفَ قده الذىعظُمت به الأْرزاء،  \nإلا أنَّ الله سبحانه قد هوت الحادث، بأنْ جعلولَدَ هُ الوارث، وأنسىَ المصاب، بأن حفِّظَ به  \nOur letter was sent to him after receipt of that news which has burdened the hearts of the sincere, the death notice from the herald who we wished was insincere in his speech concerning the righteous and most revered king (al-malik al-ʿādil al-aʿazz), to whom God has bestowed good like to no other of his kind. He bestowed his bliss upon the earth, just as He has bestowed his place upon it. May it [our letter] express the necessary measure of consolation as well as regret for his loss, through which the blows offate are magnified.  \nYet God, blessed be He, has mitigated the calamity by making His Son the heir (al-wāriṯ) . He has made the misfortune forgotten by preserving his very origin  \nالنِّصاب، ووهَبَه النعمتين: المُلكَ والشَّبَاب، فهنيئًاله ما حاز، وسَ قْ يًا لقبر والده الذى حَ قَّ له الفداءلو جاز،  \nورسولُنا الرئيسُ العميدُ مختار الدين أدام اللهسلامته قائمٌ عنا بإقامة العَ زَاء من لسانه، ووَ صْ فِّما نالنا من الوَ حْ شة لفِّراق ذلك الصديق وخُلُومكانِّه، وكيف لا يستَ وْ حشُ ربُّ الدار لفُرْقةجِّيرانه.  \nthrough him. He has granted him the two favours: kingship (mulk) and youth (šabāb) . May He make pleasant to him what he has obtained and rain it on his father’s grave, to whom–if possible–redemption would be due.  \nIt is incumbent upon the envoy (rasūl), the guiding leader (al-raʾīs al-ʿamīd) Muḫtār al-Dīn – may God perpetuate his prosperity – to offer consolation from his tongue in our stead and to describe the sadness that has seized us at the passing away of that friend and the emptiness in his place. 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