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ISBN10: 019953201X, ISBN13: 9780199532018, [publisher: OUP Oxford, Oxford] Hardcover First Edition A nice copy, bound in a green cloth with gilt lettering to the spine with cream endpapers. Dust jacket is in good condition with minor wear. Pages are free from notations and marks and are crisp and bright. Edges have very slight marks but minor. An important work. [Plymouth, DEVON, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 2014]
ISBN10: 019953201X, ISBN13: 9780199532018, [publisher: Oxford University Press Jul 2014] Hardcover Neuware - In 1099, when the first crusaders arrived triumphant and bloody before the walls of Jerusalem, they carved out a Christian European presence in the Islamic world that remained for centuries, bolstered by subsequent waves of new crusades and pilgrimages. But how did medieval Muslims understand these events What does an Islamic history of the Crusades look like The answers may surprise you.In The Race for Paradise, we see medieval Muslims managing this new and long-lived Crusader threat not simply as victims or as victors, but as everything in-between, on all shores of the Muslim Mediterranean, from Spain to Syria. This is not just a straightforward tale of warriors and kings clashing in the Holy Land - of military confrontations and enigmatic heros such as the great sultan Saladin. What emerges is a more complicated story of border-crossers and turncoats; of embassiesand merchants; of scholars and spies, all of them seeking to manage this new threat from the barbarian fringes of their ordered world.When seen from the perspective of medieval Muslims, the Crusades emerge as something altogether different from the high-flying rhetoric of the European chronicles: as a diplomatic chess-game to be mastered, a commercial opportunity to be seized, a cultural encounter shaping Muslim experiences of Europeans until the close of the Middle Ages - and, as so often happened, ...
ISBN10: 019953201X, ISBN13: 9780199532018, [publisher: Oxford University Press] Hardcover This epic story of the Crusades - told from a Muslim perspectiveIn 1099, when the first crusaders arrived triumphant and bloody before the walls of Jerusalem, they carved out a Christian European presence in the Islamic world that remained for centuries. [Greven, Germany] [Publication Year: 2014]
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ISBN10: 019953201X, ISBN13: 9780199532018, [publisher: Oxford] Hardcover UK edition. Second impression of the first edition. Book and dust jacket solid VG condition. [Evanston, IL, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 2014]
ISBN10: 019953201X, ISBN13: 9780199532018, [publisher: Oxford University Press Jul 2014] Hardcover Neuware - In 1099, when the first crusaders arrived triumphant and bloody before the walls of Jerusalem, they carved out a Christian European presence in the Islamic world that remained for centuries, bolstered by subsequent waves of new crusades and pilgrimages. But how did medieval Muslims understand these events What does an Islamic history of the Crusades look like The answers may surprise you.In The Race for Paradise, we see medieval Muslims managing this new and long-lived Crusader threat not simply as victims or as victors, but as everything in-between, on all shores of the Muslim Mediterranean, from Spain to Syria. This is not just a straightforward tale of warriors and kings clashing in the Holy Land - of military confrontations and enigmatic heros such as the great sultan Saladin. What emerges is a more complicated story of border-crossers and turncoats; of embassiesand merchants; of scholars and spies, all of them seeking to manage this new threat from the barbarian fringes of their ordered world.When seen from the perspective of medieval Muslims, the Crusades emerge as something altogether different from the high-flying rhetoric of the European chronicles: as a diplomatic chess-game to be mastered, a commercial opportunity to be seized, a cultural encounter shaping Muslim experiences of Europeans until the close of the Middle Ages - and, as so often happened, ...
Oxford University Press, Date: 2014. 1st. Hardback. Fine/Near Fine. First edition hardback, 2014, with unclipped jacket. In overall fine, unread condition in a near-fine dust jacket, slightly rubbed and toned to spine and edges. Binding tight and appears almost unopened. Internally clean, no annotation or inscriptions; text and illustrations bright and clear throughout. Photographs available. Not an old library book. 2014. Oxford University Press ISBN 019953201x 9780199532018 [GB]
ISBN10: 019953201X, ISBN13: 9780199532018, [publisher: Oxford University Press] Hardcover This epic story of the Crusades - told from a Muslim perspectiveIn 1099, when the first crusaders arrived triumphant and bloody before the walls of Jerusalem, they carved out a Christian European presence in the Islamic world that remained for centuries. [Greven, Germany] [Publication Year: 2014]
ISBN10: 019953201X, ISBN13: 9780199532018, [publisher: Oxford University Press] Hardcover First Edition First edition hardback, 2014, with unclipped jacket. In overall fine, unread condition in a near-fine dust jacket, slightly rubbed and toned to spine and edges. Binding tight and appears almost unopened. Internally clean, no annotation or inscriptions; text and illustrations bright and clear throughout. Photographs available. Not an old library book. [Shropshire, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 2014]
ISBN10: 019953201X, ISBN13: 9780199532018, [publisher: Oxford University Press] Hardcover New copy - Usually dispatched within 4 working days. This epic story of the Crusades - told from a Muslim perspective [Southport, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 2014]
ISBN10: 019953201X, ISBN13: 9780199532018, [publisher: OUP Oxford] Hardcover Book is in Used-VeryGood condition. Pages and cover are clean and intact. Used items may not include supplementary materials such as CDs or access codes. May show signs of minor shelf wear and contain very limited notes and highlighting. [Hawthorne, CA, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 2014]
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