Infidel Kings and Unholy Warriors

“This compelling account of the Crusades era debunks the clash-of-civilizations paradigm [and] depicts an era of interfaith cooperation.” — The New Yorker In Infidel Kings and Unholy Warriors , the award-winning scholar Brian Catlos transports readers to the Mediterranean world of 1050–1200, the era when enlightened Islamic empires and primitive Christendom began to contest it. Catlos meticulously reconstructs this world from siege tactics to poetry and theology. In doing so, he stunningly overt