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Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
xxvi, 399 pages : maps ; 24 cm
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"The dramatic story of the turbulent birth of modern Turkey which rose out of the ashes of the Ottoman Empire to fight off Allied occupiers, Greek invaders, and internal ethnic groups to proclaim a new republic under Mustafa Kemal"--
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Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
xvii, 334 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map ; 24 cm
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A sweeping history of the often-violent conflict between Islam and the West, shedding a revealing light on current hostilities The West and Islam--the sword and the scimitar--have clashed since the mid-seventh century, when, according to Muslim tradition, the Byzantine emperor rejected Prophet Muhammad's order to abandon Christianity and convert to Islam, unleashing a centuries-long jihad on Christendom. Sword and Scimitar chronicles the significant...
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