The Crusades Through Arab Eyes (English and French Edition) - Softcover

Maalouf, Amin

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0863560237 ISBN 13: 9780863560231

Publisher: Al Saqi, 2006

Synopsis

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. In "The Crusades Through Arab Eyes", Amin Maalouf has sifted through the works of a score of contemporary Arab chroniclers of the Crusades, eyewitnesses and often participants in the events. He retells their stories in their own vivacious style, giving us a vivid portrait of a society rent by internal conflicts, and shaken by a traumatic encounter with an alien culture. He retraces two critical centuries of Middle Eastern history, and offers fascinating insights into some of the forces that shape Arab and Islamic consciousness today.

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European and Arab versions of the Crusaders have little common. What the West remembers as an epic effort to reconquer the Holy Land is portrayed here as a brutal, destructive, unprovoked invasion by barbarian hordes. When, under Saladian, a powerful Muslin army-inspired by prophets and poets-defeated the Crusaders, it was greatest victory ever won by a non-European society against the West.

About this edition

• Publisher: Al Saqi
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0863560237
• ISBN 13: 9780863560231
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 293