[PDF.85fb] The Race for Paradise: An Islamic History of the Crusades

The Race for Paradise: An Islamic History of the Crusades

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 | #1131644 in Books |  2016-09-01 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  5.50 x1.00 x8.10l,.0 | File type: PDF | 360 pages

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||4 of 4 people found the following review helpful.| For the average reader and specialist alike|By Bryan Gibby|Professor Paul Cobb's The Race for Paradise does what few books can -- appeal to academic specialists with detail and original sources while constructing an engaging and very interesting narrative story that informs how Mediterranean Muslim societies saw, reacted to, and adapted to the European crusades. His story is b| ||"Cobb skillfully tells a good story, weaving entertaining vignettes into a clear yet nuanced narrative...[A] gripping tale energetically told. This is that rare book, carefully written and painstakingly researched, that entertains and educates while offering

In 1099, when the first Frankish invaders arrived before the walls of Jerusalem, they had carved out a Christian European presence in the Islamic world that endured for centuries, bolstered by subsequent waves of new crusaders and pilgrims. The story of how this group of warriors, driven by faith, greed, and wanderlust, created new Christian-ruled states in parts of the Middle East is one of the best-known in history. Yet it is offers not even half of the story, for it ...

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