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Cervantes in Algiers : a captive's tale
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María Antonia Garcés |
"Returning to Spain after fighting in the Battle of Lepanto and other Mediterranean campaigns against the Turks, the soldier Miguel de Cervantes was captured by Barbary pirates and taken captive to A… |
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Anglo-Saxon Perceptions of the Islamic World
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Katharine Scarfe Beckett |
In this book, Scarfe Beckett is concerned with representations of the Islamic world prevalent in Anglo-Saxon England. Using a wide variety of literary, historical and archaeological evidence, she arg… |
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The bread of angels
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Stephanie Saldana |
A romantic memoir of a young woman's year in Damascus. In 2004, 27-year-old Stephanie Saldaña traveled to Syria on a Fulbright fellowship to study the role of the prophet Jesus in Islam. She was also… |
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Christian Martyrs under Islam
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Christian C. Sahner |
How did the medieval Middle East transform from a majority-Christian world to a majority-Muslim world, and what role did violence play in this process? Christian Martyrs under Islam explains how Chri… |
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Captain America and the crusade against evil
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John Shelton Lawrence,Robert Jewett |
"Arguing that the superhero is the antidemocratic counterpart of the classical "monomyth" described by Joseph Campbell, the authors show that the American version of the monomyth derives from tales o… |
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The Islamic Jesus
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Mustafa Akyol |
Looks at the Islamic view of Jesus, exploring its origins in the seventh century and how it relates to the views of the Jews and Christians of the day. |
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Richard the Lionheart and the Third Crusade
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David Hilliam |
Relates how King Richard I of England and his troops nearly wrested Jerusalem from Muslim leader Saladin and the Saracens during the Third Crusade in 1191 A.D. |
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The Prophet & the Messiah
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C. G. Moucarry |
"In an age of media distortion and widespread stereotypes, both Christians and Muslims need a greater understanding of each other's faith. What do Christians believe about the Bible? What do Muslims … |
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Empires of the Sea
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Roger Crowley |
In 1521, Suleiman the Magnificent, Muslim ruler of the Ottoman Empire at the height of its power, dispatched an invasion fleet to the Christian island of Rhodes. This would prove to be the opening sh… |
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