Book · 1983 · Nonfiction

The Crusades Through Arab Eyes

Name: The Crusades Through Arab Eyes
Author: Amin Maalouf

Schocken Books (Penguin Random House) · 293 pages

★ 5.4 editorial score

Two centuries of crusade told from the receiving end, out of the Arab chroniclers: the Franj, as they called the invaders, eat the dead at Maarat and sack Jerusalem the following year.

Genre

History Islamic history

Subject

The Crusades Christianity and Islam

Setting

Middle East

Time

1983

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