000351563 000__ 03991cam\a2200445\a\4500 000351563 001__ 351563 000351563 005__ 20210513125935.0 000351563 006__ m\\\\\\\\u\\\\\\\\ 000351563 007__ cr\cn\nnnunnun 000351563 008__ 110523s2008\\\\nyu\\\\\ob\\\\001\0\eng\d 000351563 010__ $$z 2008001201 000351563 020__ $$a9780231517942 (electronic bk.) 000351563 020__ $$z9780231146241 000351563 020__ $$z0231146248 000351563 020__ $$z9780231146258 (pbk.) 000351563 035__ $$a(OCoLC)ocn726828754 000351563 035__ $$a(CaPaEBR)ebr10463071 000351563 040__ $$aCaPaEBR$$cCaPaEBR 000351563 05014 $$aD157$$b.R55 2008eb 000351563 08204 $$a909.07$$222 000351563 1001_ $$aRiley-Smith, Jonathan,$$d1938-2016. 000351563 24514 $$aThe crusades, Christianity, and Islam$$h[electronic resource] /$$cJonathan Riley-Smith. 000351563 260__ $$aNew York :$$bColumbia University Press,$$cc2008. 000351563 300__ $$a1 online resource (125 p.) 000351563 4901_ $$aThe Bampton lectures in America 000351563 500__ $$aPaperback edition 2011. 000351563 500__ $$aDescription based on print version record. 000351563 504__ $$aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [103]-115) and index. 000351563 5050_ $$aCrusades as Christian holy wars -- Crusades as Christian penitential wars -- Crusading and imperialism -- Crusading and Islam. 000351563 506__ $$aAccess limited to authorized users. 000351563 520__ $$aFrom the Publisher: The Crusades were penitential war-pilgrimages fought in the Levant and the eastern Mediterranean, as well as in North Africa, Spain, Portugal, Poland, the Baltic region, Hungary, the Balkans, and Western Europe. Beginning in the eleventh century and ending as late as the eighteenth, these holy wars were waged against Muslims and other enemies of the Church, enlisting generations of laymen and laywomen to fight for the sake of Christendom. Crusading features prominently in today's religion-political hostilities, yet the perceptions of these wars held by Arab nationalists, pan-Islamists, and many in the West have been deeply distorted by the language and imagery of nineteenth-century European imperialism. With this book, Jonathan Riley-Smith returns to the actual story of the Crusades, explaining why and where they were fought and how deeply their narratives and symbolism became embedded in popular Catholic thought and devotional life. From this history, Riley-Smith traces the legacy of the Crusades into modern times, specifically within the attitudes of European imperialists and colonialists and within the beliefs of twentieth-century Muslims. Europeans fashioned an interpretation of the Crusades from the writings of Walter Scott and a French contemporary, Joseph-Francois Michaud. Scott portrayed Islamic societies as forward-thinking, while casting Christian crusaders as culturally backward and often morally corrupt. Michaud, in contrast, glorified crusading, and his followers used its imagery to illuminate imperial adventures. These depictions have had a profound influence on contemporary Western opinion, as well as on Muslim attitudes toward their past and present. Whether regarded as a valid expression of Christianity's divine enterprise or condemned as a weapon of empire, crusading has been a powerful rhetorical tool for centuries. In order to understand the preoccupations of Islamist jihadis and the character of Western discourse on the Middle East, Riley-Smith argues, we must understand how images of crusading were formed in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. 000351563 650_0 $$aCrusades. 000351563 650_0 $$aChristianity and other religions. 000351563 650_0 $$aIslam$$xRelations$$xChristianity. 000351563 655_0 $$aElectronic books. 000351563 77608 $$iPrint version:$$aRiley-Smith, Jonathan Simon Christopher, 1938-$$tCrusades, Christianity, and Islam.$$dNew York : Columbia University Press, 2008$$z9780231146241$$w(DLC) 2008001201$$w(OCoLC)191258412 000351563 830_0 $$aBampton lectures in America. 000351563 8520_ $$bacq 000351563 85280 $$bebk$$hProquest Ebook Central 000351563 85640 $$3ProQuest Ebook Central$$uhttps://univsouthin.idm.oclc.org/login?url=https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/usiricelib-ebooks/detail.action?docID=908238$$zOnline access 000351563 909CO $$ooai:library.usi.edu:351563$$pGLOBAL_SET 000351563 980__ $$aEBOOK 000351563 980__ $$aBIB 000351563 982__ $$aEbook 000351563 983__ $$aOnline