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Laddar... Sword and scimitar : fourteen centuries of war between Islam and the west (utgåvan 2018)av Raymond Ibrahim
VerksinformationSword and Scimitar: Fourteen Centuries of War between Islam and the West av Raymond Ibrahim
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Gå med i LibraryThing för att få reda på om du skulle tycka om den här boken. Det finns inga diskussioner på LibraryThing om den här boken. This is a book about the conflicts in the Mediterranean basin between Islam and the Christians and thus a litany of much violence. The actual battle descriptions are not very detailed, and the maps are non existent from any viewpoint but the continental. But the primary focus of the book is the amount and nature of the Koran's iterations of the doctrines and practices of Holy War. Ibrahim is very intent on emphasising the licensing of violence in such struggles and is also careful to announce the temporal as well as spiritual rewards of the Jihad. The biographical materials are almost exclusively Islamic. The book does feature bottom of the page footnoting, with the bibliographical notes being lumped at the end. If one is looking for quotes for the violent exhortations on the Islamic side, this is a good source. The text concentrates very heavily on the conflict periods and the periods of peaceful co-existence are almost completely absent from this text. ( ) inga recensioner | lägg till en recension
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 the scimitar--have clashed since the mid-seventh century, when, according to Muslim tradition, the Byzantine 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 significant battles that arose from this ages-old Islamic jihad, beginning with the first major Islamic attack on Christian land in 636, through the occupation of the Middle East that prompted the Crusades and the far-flung conquests of the Ottoman Turks, 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, Greek, Latin, and Turkish, preeminent historian Raymond Ibrahim describes each battle in vivid detail and explains the effect the outcome had on larger historical currents of the age and how the military lessons of the battle reflect the cultural faultlines between Islam and the West. The majority of these landmark battles 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. Inga biblioteksbeskrivningar kunde hittas. |
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