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Holy Wars

Author : Gary L. Rashba
Publisher : Casemate
ISBN 13 : 1612000193
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (12 download)

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Download or read book Holy Wars written by Gary L. Rashba and published by Casemate. This book was released on 2011-08-22 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A compelling tale of how this spiritually and politically charged area of the globe has long been a place of pivotal battles” (Library Journal). Today’s Arab-Israeli conflict is merely the latest iteration of an unending history of violence in the Holy Land—a region that is unsurpassed as witness to a kaleidoscopic military history involving forces from across the world and throughout the millennia. Holy Wars describes three thousand years of war in the Holy Land with the unique approach of focusing on pivotal battles or campaigns, beginning with the Israelites’ capture of Jericho and ending with Israel’s last full-fledged assault against Lebanon. Its chapters stop along the way to examine key battles fought by the Philistines, Assyrians, Greeks, Romans, Arabs, Crusaders, and Mamluks—the latter clash, at Ayn Jalut, comprising the first time the Mongols suffered a decisive defeat. The modern era saw the rise of the Ottomans and an incursion by Napoleon, who only found bloody stalemate outside the walls of Akko. The Holy Land became a battlefield again in World War I when the British fought the Turks. The nation of Israel was forged in conflict during its 1948 War of Independence, and subsequently found itself in desperate combat, often against great odds, in 1956 and 1967, and again in 1973, when it was surprised by a massive two-pronged assault. By focusing on the climax of each conflict, while carefully setting each stage, Holy Wars examines an extraordinary breadth of military history—spanning in one volume the evolution of warfare over the centuries, as well as the enduring status of the Holy Land as a battleground.

Holy War

Author : Karen Armstrong
Publisher : Anchor
ISBN 13 : 0385721404
Total Pages : 674 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (857 download)

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Download or read book Holy War written by Karen Armstrong and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2001-11-27 with total page 674 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The New York Times bestselling author of A History of God skillfully narrates the history of the Crusades with a view toward their profound and continuing influence. "Holy War brings compassion, objectivity, breadth, and imagination to the most urgent crisis of our time." —The Boston Phoenix In 1095 Pope Urban II summoned Christian warriors to take up the cross and reconquer the Holy Land. Thus began the holy wars that would focus the power of Europe against a common enemy and become the stuff of romantic legend. In reality the Crusades were a series of rabidly savage conflicts in the name of piety. And, as Armstrong demonstrates in this fascinating book, their legacy of religious violence continues today in the Middle East, where the age-old conflict of Christians, Jews, and Muslims persists.

Holiest Wars

Author : Timothy R. Furnish
Publisher : Praeger
ISBN 13 : 0275983838
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (759 download)

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Download or read book Holiest Wars written by Timothy R. Furnish and published by Praeger. This book was released on 2005-06-30 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scholars estimate that a fifth of the world's population is Muslim, and this figure is growing rapidly. This text, written by an American scholar, highlights one of the lesser-known aspects of Islam called Mahdism, which centers belief on a "rightly guided one," a prophet who will at some point return to earth to rally Muslims and make the world right.

The Great and Holy War

Author : Philip Jenkins
Publisher : Lion Books
ISBN 13 : 0745956742
Total Pages : 428 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (459 download)

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Download or read book The Great and Holy War written by Philip Jenkins and published by Lion Books. This book was released on 2014-06-20 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Great and Holy War offers the first look at how religion created and prolonged the First World War, and the lasting impact it had on Christianity and world religions more extensively in the century that followed. The war was fought by the world's leading Christian nations, who presented the conflict as a holy war. A steady stream of patriotic and militaristic rhetoric was served to an unprecedented audience, using language that spoke of holy war and crusade, of apocalypse and Armageddon. But this rhetoric was not mere state propaganda. Philip Jenkins reveals how the widespread belief in angels, apparitions, and the supernatural, was a driving force throughout the war and shaped all three of the Abrahamic religions - Christianity, Judaism, and Islam - paving the way for modern views of religion and violence. The disappointed hopes and moral compromises that followed the war also shaped the political climate of the rest of the century, giving rise to such phenomena as Nazism, totalitarianism, and communism. Connecting remarkable incidents and characters - from Karl Barth to Carl Jung, the Christmas Truce to the Armenian Genocide - Jenkins creates a powerful and persuasive narrative that brings together global politics, history, and spiritual crisis. We cannot understand our present religious, political, and cultural climate without understanding the dramatic changes initiated by the First World War. The war created the world's religious map as we know it today.

Holy Wars

Author : Dilip Hiro
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 358 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Holy Wars written by Dilip Hiro and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Holy War

Author : Nigel Cliff
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0062097105
Total Pages : 591 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (62 download)

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Download or read book Holy War written by Nigel Cliff and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2011-09-13 with total page 591 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A sweeping historical epic and a radical new interpretation of Vasco da Gama’s groundbreaking voyages, seen as a turning point in the struggle between Christianity and Islam In 1498 a young captain sailed from Portugal, circumnavigated Africa, crossed the Indian Ocean, and discovered the sea route to the Indies and, with it, access to the fabled wealth of the East. It was the longest voyage known to history. The little ships were pushed beyond their limits, and their crews were racked by storms and devastated by disease. However, their greatest enemy was neither nature nor even the sheer dread of venturing into unknown worlds that existed on maps populated by coiled, toothy sea monsters. With bloodred Crusader crosses emblazoned on their sails, the explorers arrived in the heart of the Muslim East at a time when the old hostilities between Christianity and Islam had risen to a new level of intensity. In two voyages that spanned six years, Vasco da Gama would fight a running sea battle that would ultimately change the fate of three continents. An epic tale of spies, intrigue, and treachery; of bravado, brinkmanship, and confused and often comical collisions between cultures encountering one another for the first time; Holy War also offers a surprising new interpretation of the broad sweep of history. Identifying Vasco da Gama’s arrival in the East as a turning point in the centuries-old struggle between Islam and Christianity—one that continues to shape our world—Holy War reveals the unexpected truth that both Vasco da Gama and his archrival, Christopher Columbus, set sail with the clear purpose of launching a Crusade whose objective was to reach the Indies; seize control of its markets in spices, silks, and precious gems from Muslim traders; and claim for Portugal or Spain, respectively, all the territories they discovered. Vasco da Gama triumphed in his mission and drew a dividing line between the Muslim and Christian eras of history—what we in the West call the medieval and the modern ages. Now that the world is once again tipping back East, Holy War offers a key to understanding age-old religious and cultural rivalries resurgent today.

The Holiest of the Holies (THOTH), the Last Testament

Author : Maitreya (Joseph Emmanuel)
Publisher : Mission of Maitreya
ISBN 13 : 098189626X
Total Pages : 770 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (818 download)

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Download or read book The Holiest of the Holies (THOTH), the Last Testament written by Maitreya (Joseph Emmanuel) and published by Mission of Maitreya. This book was released on 2013-06-20 with total page 770 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For thousands of years humanity has longed for a truth, revelation, or knowledge that explains the unity of God behind all mystical experiences, previous revelations, and religions of the world, and the truth behind the universe (science). There have been mystical explanations of God from those claiming they have experienced the truth by direct contact with Spirit. There are also those who have founded great religions of the world. However, a great confusion still reigns among spiritualists, religions of the world, and the many different branches within each religion. If you study this Book carefully, with a sincere mind and an Open Heart, it will be revealed to you that the major religions on earth are not contradictory and separated at all. In fact they are complementary and were sent to earth systematically by One God. When this is understood, the Path to Salvation (Eternal Divine Path) is known This book is the main writing of Maitreya of the Mission of Maitreya: www.maitreya.org

The holy war, made by Shaddai upon Diabolus

Author : John Bunyan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 414 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book The holy war, made by Shaddai upon Diabolus written by John Bunyan and published by . This book was released on 1803 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

A Most Holy War

Author : Mark Gregory Pegg
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0195393104
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (953 download)

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Download or read book A Most Holy War written by Mark Gregory Pegg and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2009-10-30 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Historian Pegg has produced a swift-moving, gripping narrative of a horrific crusade, drawing in part on thousands of testimonies collected by inquisitors in the years 1235 to 1245. These accounts of ordinary men and women bring the story vividly to life.

Holy War, Martyrdom, and Terror

Author : Philippe Buc
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 0812290976
Total Pages : 454 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (122 download)

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Download or read book Holy War, Martyrdom, and Terror written by Philippe Buc and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2015-02-24 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Holy War, Martyrdom, and Terror examines the ways that Christian theology has shaped centuries of conflict from the Jewish-Roman War of late antiquity through the First Crusade, the French Revolution, and up to the Iraq War. By isolating one factor among the many forces that converge in war—the essential tenets of Christian theology—Philippe Buc locates continuities in major episodes of violence perpetrated over the course of two millennia. Even in secularized or explicitly non-Christian societies, such as the Soviet Union of the Stalinist purges, social and political projects are tied to religious violence, and religious conceptual structures have influenced the ways violence is imagined, inhibited, perceived, and perpetrated. The patterns that emerge from this sweeping history upend commonplace assumptions about historical violence, while contextualizing and explaining some of its peculiarities. Buc addresses the culturally sanctioned logic that might lead a sane person to kill or die on principle, traces the circuitous reasoning that permits contradictory political actions, such as coercing freedom or pardoning war atrocities, and locates religious faith at the backbone of nationalist conflict. He reflects on the contemporary American ideology of war—one that wages violence in the name of abstract notions such as liberty and world peace and that he reveals to be deeply rooted in biblical notions. A work of extraordinary breadth, Holy War, Martyrdom, and Terror connects the ancient past to the troubled present, showing how religious ideals of sacrifice and purification made violence meaningful throughout history.

The Great and Holy War

Author : Philip Jenkins
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0062105108
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (621 download)

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Download or read book The Great and Holy War written by Philip Jenkins and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2014-04-29 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Great and Holy War offers the first look at how religion created and prolonged the First World War. At the one-hundredth anniversary of the outbreak of the war, historian Philip Jenkins reveals the powerful religious dimensions of this modern-day crusade, a period that marked a traumatic crisis for Western civilization, with effects that echoed throughout the rest of the twentieth century. The war was fought by the world's leading Christian nations, who presented the conflict as a holy war. Thanks to the emergence of modern media, a steady stream of patriotic and militaristic rhetoric was given to an unprecedented audience, using language that spoke of holy war and crusade, of apocalypse and Armageddon. But this rhetoric was not mere state propaganda. Jenkins reveals how the widespread belief in angels and apparitions, visions and the supernatural, was a driving force throughout the war and shaped all three of the Abra-hamic religions—Christianity, Judaism, and Islam—paving the way for modern views of religion and violence. The disappointed hopes and moral compromises that followed the war also shaped the political climate of the rest of the century, giving rise to such phenomena as Nazism, totalitarianism, and communism. Connecting numerous remarkable incidents and characters—from Karl Barth to Carl Jung, the Christmas Truce to the Armenian Genocide—Jenkins creates a powerful and persuasive narrative that brings together global politics, history, and spiritual crisis as never before and shows how religion informed and motivated circumstances on all sides of the war.

God of Battles

Author : Peter Partner
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780691002354
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (23 download)

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Download or read book God of Battles written by Peter Partner and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Peter Partner shows how the ideal of the crusade, "God's War", came to permeate medieval Christendom, and how it influenced later Western societies. Above all, this book examines the fear that Islamic fundamentalism excites in the west and warns against allowing crusading war propaganda to affect our judgment today. 24 illustrations. Maps.

Noblesse oblige. A noble army and a holy war

Author : Noblesse
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 74 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (6 download)

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Download or read book Noblesse oblige. A noble army and a holy war written by Noblesse and published by . This book was released on 1878 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Holy War, Inc.

Author : Peter L. Bergen
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 0743234677
Total Pages : 317 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (432 download)

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Download or read book Holy War, Inc. written by Peter L. Bergen and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2001-11-14 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On September 11, 2001, the world in which we live was changed forever. The twin towers of the World Trade Center came crashing down, one side of the Pentagon burst into flame, and more than six thousand men, women, and children lost their lives in the most deadly terrorist attack on American soil. As shocking as it was, it had been long in the making: The assault was the most sophisticated and horrifying in a series of operations masterminded by Osama bin Laden and his Jihad group -- an organization that CNN's terrorism analyst Peter Bergen calls Holy War, Inc. One of only a handful of Western journalists to have interviewed the world's most wanted man face to face, Peter Bergen has produced the definitive book on the Jihadist network that operates globally and in secrecy. In the course of four years of investigative reporting, he has interviewed scores of insiders -- from bin Laden associates and family members to Taliban leaders to CIA officials -- and traveled to Afghanistan, Yemen, Egypt, Pakistan, and the United Kingdom to learn the truth about bin Laden's al Queda organization and his mission. Immense in scope and unnerving in its findings, Holy War, Inc. reveals: How bin Laden lives, travels, and communicates with his "cells." How his role in the crushing defeat of the Soviet Union in Afghanistan made him a hero to Muslims all over the world -- and equipped him to endure a long and bloody siege. How the CIA ended up funding -- to the tune of three billion dollars -- radical, anti-American Afghan groups allied to bin Laden. How the attacks that foreshadowed the destruction of the World Trade Center -- among them the bombings of the American embassies in Africa and the warship USS Cole in Yemen -- were planned and executed. The dimensions of bin Laden's personal fortune, and why freezing his assets is both futile and nearly impossible. The ideology of bin Laden's number two, the man who has influenced him most profoundly in his holy war -- the Egyptian Ayman al Zawahiri. What we can expect from Islamist extremists in the future. Above all, Peter Bergen helps us to see bin Laden's organization in a radically new light: as a veritable corporation that has exploited twenty-first-century communications and weapons technologies in the service of a medieval reading of the Koran and holy war. Holy War, Inc. is essential reading for anyone trying to understand tomorrow's terrorist threats and the militant Islamist movements that could determine the fate of governments -- and human lives -- the world over. Both author and publisher will donate a portion of the proceeds from this book to United Way's September 11th Fund for the relief of victims of the World Trade Center attacks.

“A” True Relation of the Holy War Made by King Shaddai Upon Diabolus

Author : John Bunyan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 426 pages
Book Rating : 4.+/5 (16 download)

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Download or read book “A” True Relation of the Holy War Made by King Shaddai Upon Diabolus written by John Bunyan and published by . This book was released on 1865 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Crusading Peace

Author : Tomaz Mastnak
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520226356
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (22 download)

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Download or read book Crusading Peace written by Tomaz Mastnak and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2002-02-19 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Crusades and Christian peace movements opposing them.

Unity

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)

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Download or read book Unity written by and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: