Background: It's well known that the crusades initiated an east-west contact that led to an exchange between Europe and the Islamic world. Foreign goods, philosophy, sciences, flowed east to west, and reaction to the paradox of Holy War led to chivalry as a synthesis of the warrior and Christian ideals.
But ... did the crusades also change the cultural-intellectual world of Islam? Either by adaptation (like the first examples) or reaction (the second)?
Recent histories portray this exchange as very unequal, from enlightened Islam to barbarous Franks. This makes me a little suspicious! The Franks created a 200 year colony, and met countless muslims as subjects, friends, enemies, partners, and finally conquerers. Did that presence really leave no such creative trace on the Islamic world?
Even ceding "Europe as backwater" (which has merits, though I prefer a story emphasizing the Med Sea over East vs. West here) exchanges with "barbarians" are often not as one-way as they seem!
Question: Did contact with "Frankish" (European) culture alter the cultural or intellectual history of the medieval Islamic world?
Prior Research: I've read the crusades prompted Islam to unify in opposition, and centuries later laid a framework for pan-national identity. Neat, but not what I'm looking for. I've read several books on the crusades but the cultural-intellectual stuff is really only given for the Franks. Thanks!