The Crusades Through Arab Eyes
by Amin Maalouf
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Author: Amin MaaloufEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 1989-04-29
ISBN: 0805208984
Number of pages: 293
Publisher: Schocken
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Book Review: Can't read about the crusades without this book
Summary: 5 Stars
This book, while a novel, gives invaluable insights into what really might have happened during the Crusades. Malouf presents us with the fact that the Crusades were more about money than they were about God. In what is sometimes a gruesome account, he reveals that the crusaders killed not only Muslims but Jews and Christians of the Oriental denominations. Equally interesting is his unwillingness to let Muslims off the hook. He depicts them as fighting amongst themselves, unable to unite and facing the twilight of their great civilization just as the western star began to rise. In sum, for those who think that the Crusades were about a civilized Christian army beating back a barbarian horde, reading this book will offer you the notion that it was a civilized Muslim world sinking into decay whose contact with the Franks unified them to fight against an unprovoked attempt to colonize in the name of God but in reality for gold.
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