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  • The Crusades

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    Born amid immense suffering and bloodshed, the Kingdom of Jerusalem remained a battlefield for almost 200 years.The Crusades gave rise to the Military Orders of the Templars and Hospitallers, and were a backdrop to the careers of some of history's most famous leaders including Richard 'The Lionheart' and Saladin. On occasion the savagery of the Crusaders left their opponents reeling, creating ... En savoir plus

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  • The Great Islamic Conquests AD 632–750

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    Few centuries in world history have had such a profound and long-lasting impact as the first hundred years of Islamic history.Now in compact e-guide format, David Nicolle examines the extensive Islamic conquests between AD 632 and 750. These years saw the religion and culture of Islam erupt from the Arabian Peninsula and spread across an area far larger than that of the Roman Empire. The effects ... En savoir plus

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  • Destiny Disrupted

    A History of the World Through Islamic Eyes

    par Tamim Ansary ...
    “A must read for anyone who wants to learn more about the history of the Islamic world” (San Francisco Chronicle)We in the West share a common narrative of world history. But our story largely omits a whole civilization whose citizens shared an entirely different narrative for a thousand years as the Islamic world saw it, from the time of Mohammed through the fall of the Ottoman Empire to the ... En savoir plus

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  • The War of the Three Gods

    Romans, Persians, and the Rise of Islam

    par Peter Crawford ...
    The War of the Three Gods is a military history of the Near and Middle East in the seventh century-with its chief focus on the reign of the Eastern Roman Emperor Heraclius (AD 610641)-a pivotal and dramatic time in world history. The Eastern Roman Empire was brought to the very brink of extinction by the Sassanid Persians before Heraclius managed to inflict a crushing defeat on the Sassanids with ... En savoir plus

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  • The Crusades Through Arab Eyes

    par Amin Maalouf ...
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    European and Arab versions of the Crusades have little in common. For Arabs, the twelfth and thirteenth centuries were years of strenuous efforts to repel a brutal and destructive invasion by barbarian hordes. Under Saladin, an unstoppable Muslim army inspired by prophets and poets finally succeeded in destroying the most powerful Crusader kingdoms. The memory of this greatest and most enduring ... En savoir plus

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  • Lost Islamic History

    Reclaiming Muslim Civilisation from the Past

    par Firas Alkhateeb ...
    Islam has been one of the most powerful religious, social and political forces in history. Over the last 1400 years, from origins in Arabia, a succession of Muslim polities and later empires expanded to control territories and peoples that ultimately stretched from southern France to East Africa and South East Asia. Yet many of the contributions of Muslim thinkers, scientists and theologians, not ... En savoir plus

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  • Saladin

    Hero of Islam

    This biography of the 12th century Islamic military leader provides a fascinating view of the Crusades and the Medieval Muslim world.Saladin was a Kurdish military leader who led the fight against the Crusades and rose to become first Sultan of Egypt and Syria. He united warring Muslim lands, reconquered the bulk of Crusader states and faced King Richard I of England in one of the most famous ... En savoir plus

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  • The Ismaili Assassins

    A History of Medieval Murder

    "A fascinating history . . . The Medieval conflict between Christians and Muslims has many similarities to the Middle East today."—FiretrenchThe Ismaili Assassins were an underground group of political killers who were ready to kill Christians and Muslims alike with complete disregard for their own lives. Under the powerful control of an enigmatic grand master, these devoted murderers often slayed ... En savoir plus

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  • The Great Arab Conquests

    How the Spread of Islam Changed the World We Live In

    par Hugh Kennedy ...
    A popular history of the Arab invasions that carved out an empire from Spain to ChinaToday's Arab world was created at breathtaking speed. Whereas the Roman Empire took over 200 years to reach its fullest extent, the Arab armies overran the whole Middle East, North Africa and Spain within a generation. They annihilated the thousand-year-old Persian Empire and reduced the Byzantine Empire to little ... En savoir plus

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  • The Heirs Of The Prophet Muhammad

    And the Roots of the Sunni-Shia Schism

    The Prophet Muhammad taught the word of God to the Arabs. Within a generation of his death, his followers - as vivid a cast of heroic individuals as history has known - had exploded out of Arabia to confront the two great superpowers of the seventh-century and establish Islam and a new civilization. That the protagonists originated from the small oasis communities of central Arabia gives their ... En savoir plus

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  • Road to Manzikert

    Byzantine and Islamic Warfare, 527–1071

    " Take[s] us through 500 years of conflict from Justinian through the rise of Islam to the coming of the Turks . . . good chapters on Islamic warfare."— Balkan Military HistoryIn August 1071, the Byzantine Emperor Romanus IV Diogenese led out a powerful army in an attempt to roll back Seljuk Turkish incursions into the Anatolian heartland of the Empire.Outmaneuvered by the Turkish sultan, Alp ... En savoir plus

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  • The Assassins

    A Radical Sect in Islam

    par Bernard Lewis ...
    The history of an extremist Islamic sect in the 11th-12th centuries whose terrorist methods gave the English language a new word: assassin.The word 'Assassin' was brought back from Syria by the Crusaders, and in time acquired the meaning of murderer. Originally it was applied to the members of a Muslim religious sect - a branch of the Ismailis, and the followers of a leader known as the Old Man of ... En savoir plus

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