National Catholic Register: The Crusades Were a Reasonable Response to Unchecked Islamic Aggression
Publishers Weekly: The Race for Paradise: An Islamic History of the Crusades
The Crusades “should be understood in the context of the Islamic world, treated as an active part of the dynamic relationship between medieval Islamic states and societies from Spain to Iran,” writes ...
Twentieth-century depiction of a victorious Saladin with Guy de Lusignan after battle of Hattin in 1187. Said Tahsine (1904-1985 Syria) - What if the Crusades’ history was told from an Arab ...
The Washington Post: The Islamic State’s members believe they are fighting a new Crusade. They’re wrong.
This 1881 engraving by C. W. Sharpe depicts the Battle of Ascalon in 1099. Each week, In Theory takes on a big idea in the news and explores it from a range of perspectives. This week we’re talking ...
The Islamic State’s members believe they are fighting a new Crusade. They’re wrong.
heraldscotland: Culture, custom and cleanliness. On every level the Muslims were superior Ridley Scott's new Crusades epic has been criticised for inaccuracy. What were the Crusaders and ...
MANY of the charges levelled against Ridley Scott's forthcoming Kingdom of Heaven centre on its telling of the Crusades from a western perspective. In this it is not alone: most accounts of the ...
Culture, custom and cleanliness. On every level the Muslims were superior Ridley Scott's new Crusades epic has been criticised for inaccuracy. What were the Crusaders and ...
How do we account for forces and events that paved the way for the emergence of Islamic State? Our series on the jihadist group’s origins tries to address this question by looking at the interplay of ...