Middle & Near East
The Crusades in Perspective: The Crusades in Modern Islamic Perspective
By , University of Vermont (August 2003)
Sections: Middle & Near East
Subjects: Religious History, Religion, History, Political History.
Places: Asia, Western Asia.
Periods: 1000 - 1999, 1000-1099, 1100-1199.
Key Topic: war.
Abstract
Over the course of the next year, I would like to offer occasional perspectives on the crusades—a series of holy wars waged by the Latin Christian World against primarily the Islamic World of the Middle East and largely during the period 1096–1291.
DOI: 10.1111/1478-0542.019
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