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Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
Cervantes in Algiers : a captive's tale	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…	OL12285588W
Islam and the West	Christopher J. Walker	x, 278 p., [8] leaves of plates ; 25 cm	OL13073540W
Breaking the Islam code	J. D. Greear	World events won't let North Americans ignore Muslims anymore. Whether those Muslims are villagers in Iraq or neighbors down the street, Breaking the Islam Code offers everyday Christians profound in…	OL13806362W
Anglo-Saxon Perceptions of the Islamic World	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…	OL15176072W
The bread of angels	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…	OL15408612W
Stop the Islamization of America	Pamela Geller	Islamic supremacism is seeping into every aspect of American life. Islamic jihad groups aren't solely concentrating on terror attacks (although another one of those could come at any moment), but on …	OL16679887W
Crucified Again	Raymond Ibrahim	Forget what the history textbooks told you about martyrdom being a thing of the past. Christians are being persecuted and slaughtered today. Raymond Ibrahim unveils the shocking truth about Christ…	OL17363372W
Christian Martyrs under Islam	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…	OL18023409W
Captain America and the crusade against evil	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…	OL1945166W
What's Right with Islam	Feisal Abdul Rauf	An American imam offers answers for today's toughest questions about Islam, and a vision for a reconciliation between Islam and the West.One of the pressing questions of our time is what went wrong …	OL1961305W
The Islamic Jesus	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.	OL20048144W
Richard the Lionheart and the Third Crusade	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.	OL2228006W
Face to face with Jesus	Samaa Habib	"The thrilling and heart-wrenching true story of a former Muslim woman's journey to heaven and back when she was victim of a terrorist bombing"--	OL23332054W
Empires of the sea	Roger Crowley	A thrilling account of the brutal decades-long battle between Christendom and Islam for the soul of Europe. This struggle's brutal climax came between 1565 and 1571, seven years that witnessed a figh…	OL27957432W
Flight of the Intellectuals	Paul Berman	Twenty years ago, Ayatollah Khomeini called for the assassination of Salman Rushdie--and writers around the world instinctively rallied to Rushdie's defense. Today, according to writer Paul Berman, "…	OL2938694W
The Prophet & the Messiah	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 …	OL3024206W
We are all Moors	Anouar Majid	An alternate history of xenophobia and how we must overcome it together In We Are All Moors, Anouar Majid contends that the acrimonious debates about immigration and Islam in the West are the cult…	OL4025201W
Malay Muslims	Robert Day McAmis	"Although Muslims of the Malay race are the largest ethnic community of Muslims in the world, they are little known in the Western hemisphere. Writing as an American Christian missionary who lived am…	OL5957061W
Empires of the Sea	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…	OL8387089W
A deadly misunderstanding	Mark D. Siljander	Former Congressman and Deputy Ambassador to the United Nations Mark D. Siljander takes us on an eye-opening journey of personal, religious, and political discovery. In the 1980s, Siljander was a newl…	OL9302711W