The Crusades - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Crusades write by Carole Hillenbrand. This book was released on 2000. The Crusades available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This comprehensive work of cultural history gives us something we have never had: a view of the Crusades as seen through Muslim eyes. With breathtaking command of medieval Muslim sources as well as the vast literature on medieval European and Muslim culture, Carole Hillenbrand has produced a book that shows not only how the Crusades were perceived by the Muslims, but how the Crusades affected the Muslim world - militarily, culturally, and psychologically. As the author demonstrates, that influence continues now, centuries after the events. In The Crusades the reader discovers how the Muslims reacted to the Franks, and how Muslim populations were displaced, the ensuing period of jihad, the careers of Nur al-Din and Saladin, and the interpenetration of Muslim and Christian cultures. Stereotypes of the Franks in Muslim documents offer a fascinating counter to Western views of the infidel of legend. For readers interested in the Middle Ages, military history, the history of religion, and postcolonial studies, The Crusades opens a window onto a conflict we have only viewed from one side. The Crusades is richly illustrated, with eighteen color plates and over five hundred line drawings and black and white photographs.
The Race for Paradise
The Race for Paradise - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Race for Paradise write by Paul M. Cobb. This book was released on 2014. The Race for Paradise available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "In The Race for Paradise, Paul M. Cobb offers an accurate and accessible representation of the Islamic experience of the Crusades during the Middle Ages. Cobb overturns previous claims and presents new arguments, such as the idea that the Frankish invasions of the Near East were something of a side-show to the broader internal conflict between Sunnis and Shi'ites in the region. The Race for Paradise moves along two fronts as Cobb stresses that, for medieval Muslims, the contemporaneous Latin Christian expansion throughout the Mediterranean was seen as closely linked to events in the Levant. As a consequence of this expanded geographical range, the book takes a broader chronological range to encompass the campaigns of Spanish kings north of the Ebro and the Norman conquest of Sicily (beginning in 1060), well before Pope Urban II's famous call to the First Crusade in 1095. Finally, The Race for Paradise brilliantly combats the trend to portray the history of the Crusades, particularly the Islamic experience, in simplistic or binary terms. Muslims did not solely experience the Crusades as fanatical warriors or as helpless victims, Cobb writes; as with any other human experience of similar magnitude, the Crusades were experienced in a great variety of ways, ranging from heroic martyrdom, to collaboration, to utter indifference."--Publisher information.
The Book of Contemplation
The Book of Contemplation - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Book of Contemplation write by Usama ibn Munqidh. This book was released on 2008-07-03. The Book of Contemplation available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The volume comprises lightly annotated translation of a key medieval Arabic text that bears directly on the Crusades and Crusader society and the Muslim experience of them.
Muslims and Crusaders
Muslims and Crusaders - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Muslims and Crusaders write by Niall Christie. This book was released on 2020-04-02. Muslims and Crusaders available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Muslims and Crusaders combines chronological narrative, discussion of important areas of scholarly enquiry and evidence from Islamic primary sources to give a well-rounded survey of Christianity’s wars in the Middle East, 1095–1382. Revised, expanded and updated to take account of the most recent scholarship, this second edition enables readers to achieve a broader and more complete perspective on the crusading period by presenting the crusades from the viewpoints of those against whom they were waged, the Muslim peoples of the Levant. The book introduces the reader to the most significant issues that affected Muslim responses to the European crusaders and their descendants who would go on to live in the Latin Christian states that were created in the region. It considers not only the military encounters between Muslims and crusaders, but also the personal, political, diplomatic, and trade interactions that took place between the Muslims and Franks away from the battlefield. Engaging with a wide range of translated primary source documents, including chronicles, dynastic histories, religious and legal texts, and poetry, Muslims and Crusaders is ideal for students and historians of the crusades.
The Crusades from the Perspective of Byzantium and the Muslim World
The Crusades from the Perspective of Byzantium and the Muslim World - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Crusades from the Perspective of Byzantium and the Muslim World write by Angeliki E. Laiou. This book was released on 2001. The Crusades from the Perspective of Byzantium and the Muslim World available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The essays in this volume demonstrate that on the eastern shores of the Mediterranean there were rich, variegated, and important phenomena associated with the Crusades, and that a full understanding of the significance of the movement and its impact on both the East and West must take these phenomena into account.
