Check nearby libraries
Buy this book
A sweeping history of the often-violent conflict between Islam and the West, shedding a revealing light on current hostilities
The West and Islam--the sword and scimitar--have clashed since the mid-seventh century, when, according to Muslim tradition, the Roman emperor rejected Prophet Muhammad's order to abandon Christianity and convert to Islam, unleashing a centuries-long jihad on Christendom.
Sword and Scimitar chronicles the decisive battles that arose from this ages-old Islamic jihad, beginning with the first major Islamic attack on Christian land in 636, through the Muslim occupation of nearly three-quarters of Christendom which prompted the Crusades, followed by renewed Muslim conquests by Turks and Tatars, to the European colonization of the Muslim world in the 1800s, when Islam largely went on the retreat--until its reemergence in recent times. Using original sources in Arabic and Greek, preeminent historian Raymond Ibrahim describes each battle in vivid detail and explains how these wars and the larger historical currents of the age reflect the cultural fault lines between Islam and the West.
The majority of these landmark battles--including the battles of Yarmuk, Tours, Manzikert, the sieges at Constantinople and Vienna, and the crusades in Syria and Spain--are now forgotten or considered inconsequential. Yet today, as the West faces a resurgence of this enduring Islamic jihad, Sword and Scimitar provides the needed historical context to understand the current relationship between the West and the Islamic world--and why the Islamic State is merely the latest chapter of an old history.
Check nearby libraries
Buy this book
Showing 4 featured editions. View all 4 editions?
Edition | Availability |
---|---|
1
Sword and Scimitar: Fourteen Centuries of War Between Islam and the West
2020, Hachette Books
in English
0306921421 9780306921421
|
zzzz
Libraries near you:
WorldCat
|
2
Sword and Scimitar: Fourteen Centuries of War Between Islam and the West
2018, Hachette Books
in English
0306825562 9780306825569
|
zzzz
Libraries near you:
WorldCat
|
3
Sword and Scimitar: Fourteen Centuries of War between Islam and the West
Dec 11, 2018, Blackstone Publishing, Blackstone Audio
mp3 cd
198258730X 9781982587307
|
zzzz
Libraries near you:
WorldCat
|
4
Sword and Scimitar: Fourteen Centuries of War between Islam and the West
August 28, 2018, Da Capo Press
in English
0306825554 9780306825552
|
aaaa
Libraries near you:
WorldCat
|
Book Details
Classifications
Contributors
ID Numbers
Community Reviews (0)
Feedback?October 11, 2020 | Edited by ImportBot | import existing book |
May 31, 2019 | Edited by MARC Bot | import existing book |
August 29, 2018 | Created by CrisisMagazineReader | Added new book. |