God's armies crusade and jihad: origins, history, aftermath
Crusade and jihad are often reckoned to have represented two sides of the same coin: each resonated on the opposing sides in the holy wars of the Middle Ages and each has been invoked during the war on terror. A chronicle of the Christian and Islamic struggle to control the sacred places of Palestin...
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New York
Pegasus Books
2016
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Table of Contents:
- The origins of Islam
- The search for the just society
- The dog that did not bark
- The first crusade
- The great might-have-been
- From warlord to jihadi: Nur al-Din and Saladin
- Saladin and the Lionheart
- Strategic crusades and the coming of the Mongols
- The victory of the Mamluks
- The long aftermath
- Modern times
- Reflections