By John France
The carnage at Hattin used to be the fruits of just about a century of spiritual wars among Christian and Muslim within the Holy Land. It had huge, immense effects for the full medieval global since it produced an intensification of holy conflict among Islam and Europe for over one other century - and on reflection marked the start of the tip for the Crusader presence within the heart East.
In the twentieth century reminiscence of the conflict used to be revived as an emblem of Arab wish for liberation from Crusader-Imperialism, and within the twenty first it has develop into a rallying cry for radical Muslim fundamentalists of their fight for the soul of Islam.
In this new quantity within the nice Battles sequence, John France analyses the origins and process this pivotal conflict, illuminating the roots of the sour hatred which underlay it, and explains its importance in global background - from medieval occasions to the present.
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