| Titre : |
The crusades through Arab eyes |
| Titre original : |
Les croisades vues par les Arabes |
| Type de document : |
texte imprimé |
| Auteurs : |
Amin Maalouf (1949-....), Auteur ; Jon Rothschild, Traducteur |
| Editeur : |
Londres [Royaume-Uni] : Saqi Books |
| Année de publication : |
1984 |
| Autre Editeur : |
Distributed by Zed Books |
| Importance : |
293 p. |
| Présentation : |
Illustrations, cartes |
| Format : |
20 cm |
| ISBN/ISSN/EAN : |
978-0-86356-023-1 |
| Note générale : |
Bibliographie, notes, chronologie, glossaire, index |
| Langues : |
Anglais (eng) |
| Mots-clés : |
Croisades Crusades |
| Index. décimale : |
1040 Serdema yekê ya îslamî (Emevî, Abasî, Selçûkî: 600 - 1300) | Première période islamique (Omeyyades, Abbassides, Seldjoukides : 600 - 1300) | Early Islamic period (600 - 1300) | سەرەتاکانی سەردەمی ئیسلامی Ù¦Ù Ù - ١٣٠٠|
| Note de contenu : |
European and Arab versions of the Crusades have little in common. For the Arabs, the twelfth and thirteenth centuries were not a time of awakening from medieval slumber, but years of strenuous efforts to repel a brutal and destructive invasion by barbarian hordes. When, under Saladin, a powerful Muslim army—inspired by prophets and poets—succeeded in destroying the most powerful Crusader kingdoms, it was the greatest and most enduring victory ever won by a non-European society against the West. The memory of it still lives in the minds of millions of Arabs today.
Amin Maalouf has combed the works of a score of contemporary Arab chroniclers of the Crusades, eyewitnesses and often participants in the events. In this intriguing and entertaining book, he retells their story, in the vivacious style of the chroniclers themselves, giving us a vivid portrait of a society rent by internal conflict and shaken by a traumatic encounter with an alien culture. He retraces two critical centuries of Middle Eastern history, and offers fascinating insights into some of the forces that shape Arab and Islamic consciousness today.
Although the book is written from the Arab point of view, Maalouf does not ignore the defects of Arab society and the misdeeds of its leaders. He concludes with an epilogue raising a provocative question: Why was it that soon after this great victory, the Arab world sank into decline, while the epicentre of world history shifted to Western Europe? His answer suggests that relations between the Arab world and the West are stamped, even now, by the enduring effects of a titanic battle that ended some seven centuries ago. |
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pdf (BNK) |
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The crusades through Arab eyes = Les croisades vues par les Arabes [texte imprimé] / Amin Maalouf (1949-....), Auteur ; Jon Rothschild, Traducteur . - Londres [Royaume-Uni] : Saqi Books : Distributed by Zed Books, 1984 . - 293 p. : Illustrations, cartes ; 20 cm. ISBN : 978-0-86356-023-1 Bibliographie, notes, chronologie, glossaire, index Langues : Anglais ( eng)
| Mots-clés : |
Croisades Crusades |
| Index. décimale : |
1040 Serdema yekê ya îslamî (Emevî, Abasî, Selçûkî: 600 - 1300) | Première période islamique (Omeyyades, Abbassides, Seldjoukides : 600 - 1300) | Early Islamic period (600 - 1300) | سەرەتاکانی سەردەمی ئیسلامی Ù¦Ù Ù - ١٣٠٠|
| Note de contenu : |
European and Arab versions of the Crusades have little in common. For the Arabs, the twelfth and thirteenth centuries were not a time of awakening from medieval slumber, but years of strenuous efforts to repel a brutal and destructive invasion by barbarian hordes. When, under Saladin, a powerful Muslim army—inspired by prophets and poets—succeeded in destroying the most powerful Crusader kingdoms, it was the greatest and most enduring victory ever won by a non-European society against the West. The memory of it still lives in the minds of millions of Arabs today.
Amin Maalouf has combed the works of a score of contemporary Arab chroniclers of the Crusades, eyewitnesses and often participants in the events. In this intriguing and entertaining book, he retells their story, in the vivacious style of the chroniclers themselves, giving us a vivid portrait of a society rent by internal conflict and shaken by a traumatic encounter with an alien culture. He retraces two critical centuries of Middle Eastern history, and offers fascinating insights into some of the forces that shape Arab and Islamic consciousness today.
Although the book is written from the Arab point of view, Maalouf does not ignore the defects of Arab society and the misdeeds of its leaders. He concludes with an epilogue raising a provocative question: Why was it that soon after this great victory, the Arab world sank into decline, while the epicentre of world history shifted to Western Europe? His answer suggests that relations between the Arab world and the West are stamped, even now, by the enduring effects of a titanic battle that ended some seven centuries ago. |
| En ligne : |
https://bnk.institutkurde.org/catalogue/detail.php?pirtuk=4963 |
| Format de la ressource électronique : |
pdf (BNK) |
| Permalink : |
https://pmb.institutkurde.org/opac_css/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=3605 |
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