European and Arab versions of the Crusades have little in common. For Arabs, the twelfth and thirteenth centuries were years of strenuous efforts to repel a brutal and destructive invasion by barbarian hordes. Under Saladin, an unstoppable Muslim army inspired by prophets and poets finally succeeded in destroying the most powerful Crusader kingdoms. The memory of this greatest and most enduring victory ever won by a non-European society against the West still lives in the minds of millions of Arabs today. Amin Maalouf has sifted through the works of a score of contemporary Arab chroniclers of the Crusades, eyewitnesses and often participants in the events. He retells their stories in their own vivacious style, giving us a vivid portrait of a society rent by internal conflicts and shaken by a traumatic encounter with an alien culture. He retraces two critical centuries of Middle Eastern history, and offers fascinating insights into some of the forces that shape Arab and Islamic consciousness today.
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El desajuste del mundo : Cuando nuestras civilizaciones se agotan
Las Escalas de Levante
El laberinto de los extraviados : Occidente y sus adversarios
Nuestros inesperados hermanos
El naufragio de las civilizaciones
Orígenes
Un sillón que mira al Sena
El viaje de Baldassare
Los desorientados
Identidades asesinas
El primer siglo después de Beatrice
