The Crusades Controversy: Setting the Record Straight
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Closing the gap between historical understanding and popular perception, Madden shows that it's not the Crusades that led to the conflict between the Muslim Middle East and the West, but the artificial memory passed down by Arab nationalists and Islamists. Today, when the Crusades are used as a justification for recent wars and acts of violence, The Crusades Controversy provides a sane understanding of how these holy wars fit within the context of history and the modern challenges our world faces today.
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- Rating: 1 out of 5 stars1/5There is no scholarship in this pamphlet. No references to any historical book or study. The whole thing reads like the racist ramblings of a man who has never left the confines of his small town in middle America. Embarrassing.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Highly scholarly and accurate information as well as deconstruction of a highly misunderstood historical event
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The Crusades Controversy - Thomas F. Madden
THE
CRUSADES
CONTROVERSY
Copyright © 2017 Thomas F. Madden
Published by Beacon Publishing
All rights reserved.
No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner whatsoever without permission except in the case of brief quotations in critical articles or reviews.
Portions of this text drawn from: Thomas F. Madden, The Concise History of the Crusades (Rowman and Littlefield, 2013), by permission of the publisher.
Design by Ashley Wirfel
ISBN: 978-1-63582-008-9 (softcover)
ISBN: 978-1-929266-13-5 (e-book)
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Madden, Thomas F., author.
Title: The crusades controversy : setting the record straight / Thomas F. Madden.
Description: North Palm Beach : Beacon Publishing, 2017.
Identifiers: LCCN 2017025860 | ISBN 9781635820089 (softcover : alk. paper) | ISBN 9781929266135 (e-book)
Subjects: LCSH: Crusades. | Crusades—Historiography. | Christianity and other religions—Islam.
Classification: LCC D157 .M335 2017 | DDC
909.07—dc23
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
PREFACE
ONE
Are the Crusades to Blame?
TWO
The Real Crusaders
THREE
The First Crusade: A Lone Success
FOUR
A New Age
FIVE
The Muslim Memory
SIX
Today’s Struggle between Islamists and the West
PREFACE
PRIOR TO SEPTEMBER 11, 2001, the world was a different place. Then, the Crusades were a faraway concept, an odd series of events in a distant and murky medieval past. Wars of religion seemed