and sword, is supposed to be as described above as a short history of ChristianMuslim Conflict, From my own point of view, For the greatest part, it is a history of the West East Conflict, Jamieson tried to fill in the gapes in the book by mentioning international history and nothing new was added in the conclusion so the content came really as weak and poor.
An argumental title with weak content,
.rounded up toThis was, first and foremost, incredibly informative, In my experience, everyone has an opinion about conflicts in the Middle East, and snippets of information about it, but never a whole picture, so Jamieson's brief and tothepoint overview was extremely needed and helpfula sort of base to build further knowledge on.
The writing style was clean and clear and usually not always devoid of any obvious bias, with honest attempts at providing a balanced point of view,
And apparently Jamieson has also written a book about Barbary pirates, which I need to read immediately, because, Pirates. With the recent surge in terrorist acts and military confrontations, as well as everstrengthening fundamentalist ideologies, the ChristianMuslim divide is perhaps more visible than everbut it is not new.
Alan G. Jamieson explores here the long and bloody history of the ChristianMuslim conflict, revealing in his concise yet comprehensive study how deeply this ancient divide is interwoven with crucial events in world history.
Faith and Sword opens with the tumultuous first centuries of the conflict, examining the religious precepts that framed clashes between Christians and Muslims and that
ultimately fueled the legendary Crusades.
Traversing the full breadth of the Arab lands and Christendom, Jamieson chronicles the turbulent saga from the Arab conquests of the seventh century to the rise of the powerful Ottoman Empire and its fall at the end of World War I.
He then explores the complex dynamics that emerged later in the twentieth century, as Christendom was transformed into the secular West and Islamic nations overthrew European colonialism to establish governments straddling modernity and religiosity.
From theIranian revolution to the Lebanon hostage crisis toin this new expanded editionthe recent wars in Syria, Iraq, and Afghanistan, Faith and Sword reveals the essence of this enduring struggle and its consequences.
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