The New Crusades

Author : Emran Qureshi,Michael A. Sells
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 431 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2003-11-26
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780231501569

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The New Crusades by Emran Qureshi,Michael A. Sells Pdf

Not since the Crusades of the Middle Ages has Islam evoked the degree of fear, hostility, and ethnic and religious stereotyping that is evident throughout Western culture today. As conflicts continue to proliferate around the globe, the perception of a colossal, unyielding, and unavoidable struggle between Islam and the West has intensified. These numerous conflicts, both actual and ideological, have revived fears of an ongoing "clash of civilizations"—an intractable and irreconcilable conflict of values between Western cultures and an Islam that is portrayed as hostile and alien. The New Crusades takes head-on the idea of an emergent "Cold War" between Islam and the West. It explores the historical, political, and institutional forces that have raised the specter of a threatening and monolithic Muslim enemy and provides a nuanced critique of much received wisdom on the topic, particularly the "clash of civilizations" theory. Bringing together twelve of the most influential thinkers in Middle Eastern and religious studies—including Edward Said, Roy Mottahedeh, and Fatema Mernissi—this timely collection confronts such depictions of the Arab-Islamic world, showing their inner workings and how they both empower and shield from scrutiny Islamic radicals who operate from similar paradigms of inevitable and absolute conflict.

Author : Khaled A. Beydoun
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 389 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2023-03-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520356306

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The New Crusades by Khaled A. Beydoun Pdf

"The New Crusades examines Islamophobia as a global phenomenon, detailing how the American War on Terror has facilitated and intensified the network of anti-Muslim campaigns unfolding across the world. At a juncture when both democratic and authoritarian regimes across the world are vested to persecuting their host Muslim populations, The New Crusades interrogates--through trenchant analysis and direct testimony of Muslims on the ground--how Islamophobia stands as a unifying global thread of both state and societal bigotry. Whether imposed by way of Hijab Bans in democratic France or the network of concentration camps in communist China, The New Crusades reveals--lucidly and luridly--that Islamophobia is not only a global phenomenon, but one of the world's last bastions of acceptable hate"--

Author : Thomas S. Asbridge,Lecturer in Early Medieval History Thomas Asbridge
Publisher : Simon & Schuster Limited
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Crusades
ISBN : 1849836884

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The Crusades by Thomas S. Asbridge,Lecturer in Early Medieval History Thomas Asbridge Pdf

In the 11th Century, a vast Christian army, summoned to holy war by the pope, rammpaged through the Muslim world of the eastern Mediterrannean, seizing possession of Jerusalem, a city revered by both faiths. Over the 200 years that followed, Islam & the West fought for domination over the Holy Land, clashing in a series of brutal wars.

Author : Alexander Kucharski,Waldemar Guenter
Publisher : FriesenPress
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2017-10-23
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781525513596

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The New Crusades: The Sequel by Alexander Kucharski,Waldemar Guenter Pdf

“I hope it was worth it!” challenged Spencer. Abqurah countered, “It was! It’s a better way to shoot things than with a Kalashnikov! I wish I could turn all guns in the world into cameras.” From what she showed them on the LCD panel, she did get some pretty pictures of the Arc de Triomphe by night, with yellow headlights beaming down on her from the oncoming traffic. Waldemar (Wally) Guenter wrote a murder mystery, entitled The New Crusades, about Aamir killing his older sister, Hazirah, in a fictional honour-killing at a real place, Ball’s Falls, Ontario, in October 2011. The parents are complicit in this crime because they help Aamir escape to ISIS. The younger sister, Abqurah, does not know about her family’s atrocious plan. Waldemar Guenter, a scenery photographer, discovers Hazirah’s body which prompts him to write the first novel as a kind of therapy. The sequel itself takes up the plot in October 2014 with the last two months of Wally’s life. He is dying of pancreatic cancer. Even as he lay dying, life goes on for his young friends who get engaged and get married with high hopes for their future. Alexander Kucharski the main writer of this sequel, reconnects with his old flame, Lena. Also Detective Ed Spencer, from the first novel, courts and marries, Abqurah, the youngest daughter of the Ibrahims who went to prison for their part in their daughter’s honor-killing. The Spencers become Christian and plan on a lovely honeymoon in Paris. They arrive on Wednesday morning, January 7th, 2014. This couldn’t be at a worse time. Saïd and Chérif Kouachi have just broken into the Charlie Hebdo magazine offices with assault rifles to seek revenge for the magazine’s satirization of their Prophet. By the time they are through, 12 people lie dead and the brothers escape putting Paris on high alert. Ed Spencer and Abqurah’s honeymoon turns into a nightmare...but not all is lost...

Author : Jonathan Phillips
Publisher : Random House
Page : 473 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2010-03-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9781588369758

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Holy Warriors by Jonathan Phillips Pdf

From an internationally renowned expert, here is an accessible and utterly fascinating one-volume history of the Crusades, thrillingly told through the experiences of its many players—knights and sultans, kings and poets, Christians and Muslims. Jonathan Phillips traces the origins, expansion, decline, and conclusion of the Crusades and comments on their contemporary echoes—from the mysteries of the Templars to the grim reality of al-Qaeda. Holy Warriors puts the past in a new perspective and brilliantly sheds light on the origins of today’s wars. Starting with Pope Urban II’s emotive, groundbreaking speech in November 1095, in which he called for the recovery of Jerusalem from Islam by the First Crusade, Phillips traces the centuries-long conflict between two of the world’s great faiths. Using songs, sermons, narratives, and letters of the period, he reveals how the success of the First Crusade inspired generations of kings to campaign for their own vainglory and set down a marker for the knights of Europe, men who increasingly blurred the boundaries between chivalry and crusading. In the Muslim world, early attempts to call a jihad fell upon deaf ears until the charisma of the Sultan Saladin brought the struggle to a climax. Yet the story that emerges has other dimensions—as never before, Phillips incorporates the holy wars within the story of medieval Christendom and Islam and shines new light on many truces, alliances, and diplomatic efforts that have been forgotten over the centuries. Holy Warriors also discusses how the term “crusade” survived into the modern era and how its redefinition through romantic literature and the drive for colonial empires during the nineteenth century gave it an energy and a resonance that persisted down to the alliance between Franco and the Church during the Spanish Civil War and right up to George W. Bush’s pious “war on terror.” Elegantly written, compulsively readable, and full of stunning new portraits of unforgettable real-life figures—from Richard the Lionhearted to Melisende, the formidable crusader queen of Jerusalem—Holy Warriors is a must-read for anyone interested in medieval Europe, as well as for those seeking to understand the history of religious conflict.

Author : Usama ibn Munqidh
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2008-07-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9780141919171

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The Book of Contemplation by Usama ibn Munqidh Pdf

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.

Author : Christopher Tyerman
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 1040 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2007-10-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9780141904313

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God's War by Christopher Tyerman Pdf

'Wonderfully written and characteristically brilliant' Peter Frankopan, author of The Silk Roads 'Elegant, readable ... an impressive synthesis ... Not many historians could have done it' - Jonathan Sumption, Spectator 'Tyerman's book is fascinating not just for what it has to tell us about the Crusades, but for the mirror it holds up to today's religious extremism' - Tom Holland, Spectator Thousands left their homelands in the Middle Ages to fight wars abroad. But how did the Crusades actually happen? From recruitment propaganda to raising money, ships to siege engines, medicine to the power of prayer, this vivid, surprising history shows holy war - and medieval society - in a new light.

Author : Dan Jones
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 445 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2019-09-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781781858875

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Crusaders by Dan Jones Pdf

From the bestselling author of The Templars. 'Voyages, battles, sieges and slaughter: Dan Jones's tumultuous and thrilling history of the crusades is one of the best' SUNDAY TIMES. 'A powerful story brilliantly told. Dan Jones writes with pace, wit and insight' HELEN CASTOR. 'A fresh and vibrant account of a conflict that raged across medieval centuries' JONATHAN PHILLIPS. Dan Jones, best-selling chronicler of the Middle Ages, turns his attention to the history of the Crusades – the sequence of religious wars fought between the late eleventh century and late medieval periods, in which armies from European Christian states attempted to wrest the Holy Land from Islamic rule, and which have left an enduring imprint on relations between the Muslim world and the West. From the preaching of the First Crusade by Pope Urban II in 1095 to the loss of the last crusader outpost in the Levant in 1302-03, and from the taking of Jerusalem from the Fatimids in 1099 to the fall of Acre to the Mamluks in 1291, Crusaders tells a tale soaked in Islamic, Christian and Jewish blood, peopled by extraordinary characters, and characterised by both low ambition and high principle. Dan Jones is a master of popular narrative history, with the priceless ability to write page-turning narrative history underpinned by authoritative scholarship. Never before has the era of the Crusades been depicted in such bright and striking colours, or their story told with such gusto. PRAISE FOR THE TEMPLARS: 'A fresh, muscular and compelling history of the ultimate military-religious crusading order, combining sensible scholarship with narrative swagger' SIMON SEBAG MONTEFIORE. 'Dan Jones has created a gripping page-turner out of the dramatic history of the Templars' PHILIPPA GREGORY. 'The story of the Templars, the ultimate holy warriors, is an extraordinary saga of fanaticism, bravery, treachery and betrayal, and in Dan Jones they have a worthy chronicler. The Templars is a wonderful book!' BERNARD CORNWELL. 'Told with all Jones's usual verve and panache, this is a dramatic and gripping tale of courage and stupidity, faith and betrayal' MAIL ON SUNDAY. 'This is another triumphant tale from a historian who writes as addictively as any page-turning novelist' OBSERVER. 'The Templars is exhilarating, epic, sword-swinging history' TLS. 'Jones carries the Templars through the crusades with clarity and verve. This is unabashed narrative history, fast-paced and full of incident... Jones tells their story extremely well' SUNDAY TIMES.

Author : Thomas Asbridge
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 497 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2012-01-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9781849837699

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The First Crusade by Thomas Asbridge Pdf

'A nuanced and sophisticated analysis... Exhilarating' Sunday Telegraph Nine hundred years ago, one of the most controversial episodes in Christian history was initiated. The Pope stated that, in spite of the apparently pacifist message of the New Testament, God actually wanted European knights to wage a fierce and bloody war against Islam and recapture Jerusalem. Thus was the First Crusade born. Focusing on the characters that drove this extraordinary campaign, this fascinating period of history is recreated through awe-inspiring and often barbaric tales of bold adventure while at the same time providing significant insights into early medieval society, morality and mentality. The First Crusade marked a watershed in relations between Islam and the West, a conflict that set these two world religions on a course towards deep-seated animosity and enduring enmity. The chilling reverberations of this earth-shattering clash still echo in the world today. '[Asbridge] balances persuasive analysis with a flair for conveying with dramatic power the crusaders' plight' Financial Times

Author : Emran Qureshi,Michael Anthony Sells
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 431 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Europe
ISBN : 9780231126670

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The New Crusades by Emran Qureshi,Michael Anthony Sells Pdf

In these essays, twelve of the most influential thinkers in Middle Eastern and religious studies examine the idea of an emergent "Cold War" between Islam and the West and fears of an ongoing "clash of civilizations"--Cover 4.

Author : David T. Morgan
Publisher : University Alabama Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Religion
ISBN : UOM:39015037255869

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The New Crusades, the New Holy Land by David T. Morgan Pdf

This text aims to capture the essence of the conflict between some modern-day southern Baptists, who saw themselves as crusaders for truth as they sought to redeem a new Holy Land, from the control of other southern Baptists they viewed as liberals.

Author : Thomas F. Madden
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN : 0742538222

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The New Concise History of the Crusades by Thomas F. Madden Pdf

In this sweeping yet crisp history, the author offers a brilliant and compelling narrative of the Crusades and their contemporary relevance.

Author : Elizabeth Siberry
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2016-12-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351885195

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The New Crusaders by Elizabeth Siberry Pdf

This is the first comprehensive study of the use, abuse and development of the crusade image in popular and high culture in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Drawing upon a diverse range of sources, mainly from the British Isles, but with parallels from Western Europe and North America, the author shows the different approaches to the history of the crusading movement and crusade images taken by the historian, composer, artist and author.

Author : Benjamin Disraeli (Earl of Beaconsfield)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1880
Category : English literature
ISBN : HARVARD:HWHS7I

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Tancred, Or, The New Crusade by Benjamin Disraeli (Earl of Beaconsfield) Pdf

Author : Benjamin Disraeli
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 498 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1880
Category : British
ISBN : UCR:31210001892544

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Tancred, Or, The New Crusade by Benjamin Disraeli Pdf