Morton, Nicholas Edward, <br/><br/>
Encountering Islam on the First Crusade /Nicholas Morton, Nottingham Trent University. 

 - New York :  Cambridge University Press,  (c)2016. 
 - 1 online resource 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographies and index. 
<br/><br/>Predicates --  The launch of the First Crusade --  The First Crusade and the conquest of Jerusalem --  Aftermath. 
<br/><br/> The First Crusade (1095-9) has often been characterised as a head-to-head confrontation between the forces of Christianity and Islam. For many, it is the campaign that created a lasting rupture between these two faiths. Nevertheless, is such a characterisation borne out by the sources? Engagingly written and supported by a wealth of evidence, Encountering Islam on the First Crusade offers a major reinterpretation of the crusaders' attitudes towards the Arabic and Turkic peoples they encountered on their journey to Jerusalem. Nicholas Morton considers how they interpreted the new peoples, civilizations and landscapes they encountered; sights for which their former lives in Western Christendom had provided little preparation. Morton offers a varied picture of cross cultural relations, depicting the Near East as an arena in which multiple protagonists were pitted against each other. Some were fighting for supremacy, others for their religion, many simply for survival. 
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<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781316661666 9781316726426 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Crusades--First, 1096-1099.<br/>Islam--Relations--Christianity--History--To 1500.<br/>Christianity and other religions.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic Books.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>D161  / .E536 2016