Church of Garbage
Robert Irwin, 3 February 2000
The Crusades: Islamic Perspectives
by Carole Hillenbrand.
Edinburgh, 648 pp., £80, July 1999,0 7486 0905 9 Show More
by Carole Hillenbrand.
Edinburgh, 648 pp., £80, July 1999,
“... those expeditions as the forerunners or even causes of modern developments in the Middle East. As Carole Hillenbrand remarks, ‘some contemporary Arab and Muslim scholars evaluate and reinterpret the Crusading phenomenon in the light of recent experiences such as colonialism, Arab nationalism, the establishment of the state of Israel, the liberation of ... ”