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020			_a 9780199358113
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050			_aD157 _bC58 2014
100			_aCobb, Paul M., 1967-
245			_aThe race for paradise : _ban Islamic history of the crusades / _cPaul M. Cobb
260			_aNew York : _bOxford University Press, _c2014.
300			_axxii, 335 pages : _billustrations (some color), maps ; _c25cm
500			_a504 Includes bibliographical references ( pages 285-321) and index 505 0 Prologue: Damascus Crossroads -- The abode of Islam -- The frightened sea -- Prey of the sword -- Against the enemies of God -- Testing our might -- The fallen tent -- From every deep valley -- Wolves and lions -- Let them be our rulogists -- Epilogue: Buried horsemen 520 "In The Race for Paradise, Paul M. Cobb offers an accurate and accessible representation of the Islamic experience of the Crusades during the Middle Ages. Cobb overturns previous claims and presents new arguments, such as the idea that the Frankish invasions of the Near East were something of a side-show to the broader internal conflict between Sunnis and Shi'ites in the region. The Race for Paradise moves along two fronts as Cobb stresses that, for medieval Muslims, the contemporaneous Latin Christian expansion throughout the Mediterranean was seen as closely linked to events in the Levant. As a consequence of this expanded geographical range, the book takes a broader chronological range to encompass the campaigns of Spanish kings north of the Ebro and the Norman conquest of Sicily (beginning in 1060), well before Pope Urban II's famous call to the First Crusade in 1095. Finally, The Race for Paradise brilliantly combats the trend to portray the history of the Crusades, particularly the Islamic experience, in simplistic or binary terms. Muslims did not solely experience the Crusades as fanatical warriors or as helpless victims, Cobb writes; as with any other human experience of similar magnitude, the Crusades were experienced in a great variety of ways, ranging from heroic martyrdom, to collaboration, to utter indifference" --|cProvided by publisher
650			_aCrusades
650			_aIslam _xRelations _xChristianity _xHistory _yTo 1500
650			_aChristianity and other religions _xIslam _xHistory _yTo 1500
650			_aMuslims _xHistory _yTo 1500 _zMediterranean Region
655			_2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01411628 _bHistory.
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