Ray Saintonge wrote
We never know whether we will find the key source in
the
next place that we look. Fermat's Last Theorem remained unproven for
three centuries because nobody could find the killer counterexample.
No, because no one could find a proof. We _now_ know that was the reason.
Until recently the only available sources for writing
about the Crusades
were European ones.
The Receuil des historiens des croisades (1881 onwards) included Arabic language sources
in translation. Amin Maalouf's book mentions at least one other 1890s translation.
'Only' is certainly wrong.
Charles
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