A Brief History of the Crusades: Islam and Christianity in the Struggle for World Supremacy 9781841197661

Cult of the Dead: A Brief History of Christianity 9780520975712

A sweeping cultural history of how Christianity was born from its martyrs. Though it promises eternal life, Christianity

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Cold War in the Islamic World: Saudi Arabia, Iran and the Struggle for Supremacy 019094465X, 9780190944650

For four decades Saudi Arabia and Iran have vied for influence in the Muslim world. At the heart of this ongoing Cold Wa

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Christianity, Islam, and Atheism: The Struggle for the Soul of the West 158617696X, 9781586176969

For many Americans the attack on the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001, was the first time they had considered Is

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The Concise History of the Crusades (Critical Issues in World and International History) 3753186170, 9781442215740, 9781442231160

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Oman's Insurgencies: The Sultanate's Struggle for Supremacy 0863567029, 9780863567025

Oman today is a rapidly modernizing and peaceful country on the fringes of a region in turmoil. It does, however, have a

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The Art of Freedom: A Brief History of the Kurdish Liberation Struggle 9781629637815, 9781629639079, 9781629638041, 2019946089

Contents Introduction by Andrej GrubačićLECTURE I Critique and Self-Critique—The Rise of the Kurdish Freedom Movement fr

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The Struggle for Supremacy in the Middle East: Saudi Arabia and Iran 1108473369, 9781108473361

Since 1979, few rivalries have affected Middle Eastern politics as much as the rivalry between Saudi Arabia and Iran. Ho

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Islam and the Crusades: Collected Essays 9781474485920

Collects 20 papers on the Crusades by one of the world’s leading experts on medieval Islamic history Traces the evolutio

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Conflicts of Empires: Spain, the Low Countries and the Struggle for World Supremacy, 1585-1713 1852851619, 9781852851613

The period between the late sixteenth and the early eighteenth centuries was one of tremendous, and ultimately decisive,

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Heavy Metal Islam: Rock, Resistance, and the Struggle for the Soul of Islam 9780520389403

This updated reissue of Mark LeVine’s acclaimed, revolutionary book on sub- and countercultural music in the Middle East

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