Infidels: The Conflict Between Christendom and Islam ebook

ALSO BY ANDREW WHEATCROFT The Ottomans: Dissolving Images The Habsburgs: Embodying Empire The World . The World Atlas of Revolutions. The Road to War (with Richard Overy). Zones of Conflict: An Atlas of Future Wars (with John Keegan).

ALSO BY ANDREW WHEATCROFT The Ottomans: Dissolving Images The Habsburgs: Embodying Empire The World Atlas of Revolutions The Road to War (with Richard Overy) Zones of Conflict: A. Who’s Who in Military History: From 1453 to the Present Day (with John Keegan).

Though the book can be read as a history of a number of interactions between Islam and Christianity - the initial Arab invasions, the Islamic conquest and Christian reconquest of Spain, the Crusades, and European conflicts with the Ottomans - it is really more about how and why these two cultures came to feel the way they did about each other both in the past.

Also by andrew wheatcroft

Also by andrew wheatcroft. The Ottomans: Dissolving Images The Habsburgs: Embodying Empire The World Atlas of Revolutions The Road to War (with Richard Overy) Zones of Conflict: An Atlas of Future Wars (with John Keegan) Who’s Who in Military History: From 1453 to the Present Day (with John Keegan). This is also the rst book I have completed with the full availability of e-mail and the Internet.

Wheatcroft, an academic teaching at the University of Stirling, weaves his lengthy narrative around a fairly simple thread: the thesis that mutually negative perceptions and rhetoric of enmity and hate between Christianity and Islam developed early on since the Muslim conquest of the Holy.

Wheatcroft, an academic teaching at the University of Stirling, weaves his lengthy narrative around a fairly simple thread: the thesis that mutually negative perceptions and rhetoric of enmity and hate between Christianity and Islam developed early on since the Muslim conquest of the Holy lands, followed by the crusades and the Muslim occupation of most of the Iberian Peninsula. They have been revived ever since up to the contemporary Jidahist terrorists and the US war on terror, leading them into Afghanistan and Iraq

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Andrew Wheatcroft's Infidels charts centuries of confrontation and hatred between Christendom and Islam. Infidels: A History of the Conflict Between Christendom and Islam, by Andrew Wheatcroft (Penguin, £. 9). How could we have imagined this conflict could ever have gone away, asks Nicholas Lezard. In 1571, the governor of Famagusta, Marcantonio Bragadino, sued for an honourable surrender after having been besieged for four months by the Ottoman commander, Lala Mustafa. Bragadino's nose and ears were sliced off after he had watched his officers and staff being beheaded.

Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd. ISBN: 9780140257380. Number of pages: 544. Weight: 372 g. Dimensions: 198 x 129 x 32 mm. Format: fb2, epub, djvu, pdf, ibooks, mobi, kindle.

Infidels: A History of the Conflict Between Christendom and Islam. Here is the first panoptic history of the long struggle between the Christian West and Islam.