Crusade and Jihad
The Thousand-Year War Between the Muslim World and the Global North
$73.71
- Hardcover
656 pages
- Release Date
6 February 2018
Summary
What really happened in the centuries of conflict between Europe, Russia, China, America, and the peoples of the Muslim world
Crusade and Jihad is the first book to encompass, in one volume, the entire history of the catastrophic encounter between the Global North—China, Russia, Europe, Britain, and America—and Muslim societies from Central Asia to West Africa. William R. Polk draws on more than half a century of experience as a historian, policy planner, dip…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780300222906 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0300222904 |
| Author: | William R. Polk |
| Publisher: | Yale University Press |
| Imprint: | Yale University Press |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 656 |
| Release Date: | 6 February 2018 |
| Weight: | 1.10kg |
| Dimensions: | 44mm x 156mm x 235mm |
| Series: | The Henry L. Stimson Lectures |
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Critics Review
“Crusade and Jihad is a challenging and interesting book, well written and provocative.”—Hugh Kennedy, Literary Review
“In this magisterial treatment, William Polk cuts to the core of contemporary conflicts with the Muslim world, providing an accessible, often troubling account.“—Joel Gordon,University of Arkansas, author of Nasser: Hero of the Arab Nation
“A tour de force covering centuries of history from the perspective of the people who lived in the Muslim world, Crusade and Jihad offers a fresh and urgently needed angle on the present crisis in the Middle East that you will find nowhere else.”—Ilan Pappe, author of The Forgotten Palestinians: A History of the Palestinians in Israel
“William Polk combines analytical powers and profound insight with a lively, accessible style. Crusade and Jihad is a pleasure for the mind.”—Uri Avnery, author and peace activist
“With rigor and sympathy, William Polk has produced a masterpiece to enlighten us all. No one who reads Crusade and Jihad will put it down without an increased knowledge and understanding of the crucial relationship between the Islamic and Western worlds.“— Charles Glass, author of Tribes with Flags and Syria Burning: A Short History of a Catastrophe
“A brilliant study, analytical and authoritative. There are few overviews that can rival the depth and the range of this work.”— K.N. Chaudhuri, FBA Emeritus Professor of The History of European Expansion, European University, Florence, Italy
William R. Polk
William R. Polk taught Arabic literature and history at Harvard University and the University of Chicago, served on the Policy Planning Council under President Kennedy, negotiated the Egyptian-Israeli Suez ceasefire, and founded the Adlai Stevenson Institute of International Affairs. He has written nineteen books.
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