The race for paradise : an Islamic history of the Crusades
Cobb, Paul M., 1967-2014
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Total copies: 1
In 1099, when the first crusaders arrived triumphant and bloody before the walls of Jerusalem, they carved out a Christian European presence in the Islamic world that remained for centuries, bolstered by subsequent waves of new crusades and pilgrimages. But how did medieval Muslims understand these events? What does an Islamic history of the Crusades look like? The answers may surprise you. In 'The Race for Paradise', we see medieval Muslims managing this new and long-lived Crusader threat not simply as victims or as victors, but as everything in-between, on all shores of the Muslim Mediterranean, from Spain to Syria.
Main title:
The race for paradise : an Islamic history of the Crusades / Paul M. Cobb.
Author:
Cobb, Paul M., 1967-, author
Imprint:
Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2014.
Collation:
xxii, 335 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (black and white, and colour), maps (black and white) ; 24 cm
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9780199532018 (hbk)
Dewey class:
909'.07909.07
LC class:
D160
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
276419