A Brief History of the Crusades: Islam and Christianity in the Struggle for World Supremacy 9781841197661

Why did the medieval Church bless William of Normandy's invasion of Christian England in 1066 and authorize cultura

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A Brief History of the Crusades: Islam and Christianity in the Struggle for World Supremacy
9781841197661

For many Americans the attack on the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001, was the first time they had considered Is

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For four decades Saudi Arabia and Iran have vied for influence in the Muslim world. At the heart of this ongoing Cold Wa

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A world history lesson stretching across several centuries, Islam in the Indian Ocean World provides insight into how Is

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Drawing on history, public opinion surveys, and personal experience, Robert P. Jones delivers a provocative examination

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In the late fall of 1095 Pope Urban II gave a speech in Clermont, France and set all of Europe into motion. As many as a

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Oman today is a rapidly modernizing and peaceful country on the fringes of a region in turmoil. It does, however, have a

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A lively reimagining of how the distant medieval world of war functioned, drawing on the objects used and made by crusad

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