The Holy War: The Crusades and Their Impact on Today's World - Hardcover

Armstrong, Karen

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0385241933 ISBN 13: 9780385241939

Publisher: Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group, 1991

Synopsis

Probes beneath the mythic features of the Crusades to examine the reality of religious wars that continue to have repercussions in the Middle East, and discusses the significance of the Crusades in the collective consciousness of Muslims and Jews

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Review:

"A tour de force. . . . Any reader will come away from this book with a better frame of reference for assessing today's headlines." --The Kansas City Star

"Holy War brings compassion, objectivity, breadth, and imagination to the most urgent crisis of our time." --The Boston Phoenix

"Erudite, balanced, and lucidly written. . . . [Provides] a mine of useful information on Muslim-Western perceptions of each other. . . . An important book." --Library Journal

About the Author:

Karen Armstrong is the author of numerous other books on religious affairs--including A History of God, The Battle for God, The Case for God, Islam, Buddha, and The Great Transformation--and two memoirs, Through the Narrow Gate and The Spiral Staircase. Her work has been translated into forty-five languages. She has addressed members of the U.S. Congress on three occasions; lectured to policy makers at the U.S. State Department; participated in the World Economic Forum in New York, Jordan, and Davos; addressed the Council on Foreign Relations in Washington and New York; is increasingly invited to speak in Muslim countries; and is now an ambassador for the UN Alliance of Civilizations. In February 2008 she was awarded the TED Prize and recently launched with TED a Charter for Compassion, created online by the general public and crafted by leading thinkers in Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, and Buddhism to restore compassion to the centre of morality and religion. She lives in London.

About this edition

• Publisher: Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group
• Publication date: 1991
• ISBN 10: 0385241933
• ISBN 13: 9780385241939
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 628