Klappentext Amin Maalouf has sifted through the works of a score of contemporary Arab chronicles of the Crusades, eyewitnesses and often participants in the events. He retells their stories in their own vivacious style, giving us a vivid portrait of a society rent by internal conflicts and shaken by a traumatic encounter with an alien culture. Zusammenfassung Sifts through the works of a score of contemporary Arab chroniclers of the Crusades! eyewitnesses and often participants in the events. This book retells their stories in their own style! giving us a vivid portrait of a society rent by internal conflicts! and shaken by a traumatic encounter with an alien culture.

Autorentext

Amin Maalouf is a Lebanese writer and journalist. He is the author of bestselling books, including Leo Africanus, Samakand, On Identity and Ports of Call. He has lived in Paris since 1976.

Klappentext
European and Arab versions of the Crusades have little in common. For Arabs, the twelfth and thirteenth centuries were years of strenuous efforts to repel a brutal and destructive invasion by barbarian hordes. In "The Crusades Through Arab Eyes", Amin Maalouf has sifted through the works of a score of contemporary Arab chroniclers of the Crusades, eyewitnesses and often participants in the events. He retells their stories in their own vivacious style, giving us a vivid portrait of a society rent by internal conflicts, 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.

Zusammenfassung
Drawing on vivid Arab chronicles, Amin Maalouf retells the Crusades from the Muslim perspective an era of fierce resistance, Saladin's triumph, and a lasting cultural memory that still shapes Arab identity and views of the West today.