The Cutting Edge of the Poet's Sword - 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 Cutting Edge of the Poet's Sword write by Osman Latiff. This book was released on 2017. The Cutting Edge of the Poet's Sword available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In The Cutting Edge of the Poet's Sword Osman Latiff assesses anti-Frankish Muslim poetry during the crusades, specifically the topic of faḍāʾil al-Quds ('merits of Jerusalem') and jihād as they relate to the occupation and reconquest of Jerusalem.
The Cutting Edge of the Poet’s Sword: Muslim Poetic Responses to the Crusades
The Cutting Edge of the Poet’s Sword: Muslim Poetic Responses to 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 Cutting Edge of the Poet’s Sword: Muslim Poetic Responses to the Crusades write by Osman Latiff. This book was released on 2017-09-25. The Cutting Edge of the Poet’s Sword: Muslim Poetic Responses to the Crusades available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In this comprehensive analysis of Arabic poetry during the period of the crusades (sixth/twelfth-seventh/thirteenth centuries), Osman Latiff provides an insightful examination of the poets who inspired Muslims to unite in the jihād against the Franks. The Cutting Edge of the Poet’s Sword not only contributes to our understanding of literary history, it also illuminates a broad spectrum of religiosity and the role of political propaganda in the anti-Frankish Muslim struggle. Latiff shows how poets, often used by the ruling elite to promote their rule, emphasised the centrality of Islam’s holy sites to inspire the Muslim response to the occupation and later reconquest of Jerusalem, and expressed some surprising views of Frankish Christians.
Medieval Iberian Crusade Fiction and the Mediterranean World
Medieval Iberian Crusade Fiction and the Mediterranean 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 Medieval Iberian Crusade Fiction and the Mediterranean World write by David A. Wacks. This book was released on 2019-09-06. Medieval Iberian Crusade Fiction and the Mediterranean World available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Reading crusader fiction against the backdrop of Mediterranean history, this book explains how Iberian authors reimagined the idea of crusade through the lens of Iberian geopolitics and social history. The crusades transformed Mediterranean history and inaugurated complex engagements between Western Europe, the Balkans, North Africa, and the Middle East in ways that endure to this day. Narratives of crusades powerfully shaped European thinking about the East and continue to influence the representation of interactions between Christian and Muslim states in the region. The crusade, a French idea that gave rise to Iberian, North African, and Levantine campaigns, was very much a Mediterranean phenomenon. French and English authors wrote itineraries in the Holy Land, chronicles of the crusades, and fanciful accounts of Christian knights who championed the Latin Church in the East. This study aims to explore the ways in which Iberian authors imagined their role in the culture of crusade, both as participants and interpreters of narrative traditions of the crusading world from north of the Pyrenees.
Shadow of the Swords
Shadow of the Swords - 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 Shadow of the Swords write by Kamran Pasha. This book was released on 2010-06-22. Shadow of the Swords available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. An epic saga of love and war, Shadow of the Swords tells the story of the Crusades—from the Muslim perspective. Saladin, a Muslim sultan, finds himself pitted against King Richard the Lionheart as Islam and Christianity clash against each other, launching a conflict that still echoes today. In the midst of a brutal and unforgiving war, Saladin finds forbidden love in the arms of Miriam, a beautiful Jewish girl with a tragic past. But when King Richard captures Miriam, the two most powerful men on Earth must face each other in a personal battle that will determine the future of the woman they both love—and of all civilization. Richly imagined, deftly plotted, and highly entertaining, Shadow of the Swords is a remarkable story that will stay with readers long after the final page has been turned.
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.
