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Title:
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THE CRUSADES THROUGH ARAB EYES
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By: |
Amin Maalouf (Editor), J. Rothschild (Trans) |
Format: |
Paperback |

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£16.99 |
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£14.02 |
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ISBN 10: |
0863560237 |
ISBN 13: |
9780863560231 |
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Publisher: |
SAQI BOOKS |
Pub. date: |
15 July, 1984 |
Series: |
Saqi Essentials |
Pages: |
312 |
Translated from: |
French |
Description: |
Sifts through the works of a score of contemporary Arab chroniclers of the Crusades, eyewitnesses and often participants in the events. This book retells their stories in their own style, giving us a vivid portrait of a society rent by internal conflicts, and shaken by a traumatic encounter with an alien culture. |
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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UK |
Imprint: |
Saqi Books |
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