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Islam and the West: 700 to 1700
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Peace Be Upon You: The Story of Muslim, Christian, and Jewish Coexistence
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Zachary Karabell
3.96 avg rating β 170 ratings
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Blood and Faith: The Purging of Muslim Spain
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Matthew Carr
4.17 avg rating β 535 ratings
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Aladdin's Lamp: How Greek Science Came to Europe Through the Islamic World
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John Freely
3.61 avg rating β 302 ratings
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God's Crucible: Islam and the Making of Europe, 570-1215
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David Levering Lewis
3.78 avg rating β 948 ratings
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Warriors of God: Richard the Lionheart and Saladin in the Third Crusade
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James Reston Jr.
3.96 avg rating β 2,008 ratings
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Muhammad, the World-Changer: An Intimate Portrait
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Mohamad Jebara
4.48 avg rating β 566 ratings
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Empires of the Sea: The Final Battle for the Mediterranean, 1521 - 1580
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Roger Crowley
4.29 avg rating β 6,710 ratings
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The House Of Wisdom
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Jonathan Lyons
3.87 avg rating β 1,067 ratings
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Lost Enlightenment: Central Asia's Golden Age from the Arab Conquest to Tamerlane
by:
S. Frederick Starr
4.26 avg rating β 1,185 ratings
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Conflict and Coexistence: Archbishop Rodrigo and the Muslims and Jews of Medieval Spain
by:
Lucy K. Pick
4.67 avg rating β 6 ratings
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1453: The Holy War for Constantinople and the Clash of Islam and the West
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Roger Crowley
4.25 avg rating β 6,903 ratings
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The Fall of Constantinople 1453
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Steven Runciman
4.32 avg rating β 1,512 ratings
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Dogs of God: Columbus, the Inquisition, and the Defeat of the Moors
by:
James Reston Jr.
3.87 avg rating β 959 ratings
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A History Of The Crusades 3 Volume Set
by:
Steven Runciman
4.41 avg rating β 206 ratings
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Defenders of the Faith: Charles V, Suleyman the Magnificent, and the Battle for Europe, 1520-1536
by:
James Reston Jr.
4.03 avg rating β 781 ratings
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Sand
by:
Paul Majkut
4.44 avg rating β 27 ratings
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The Abacus and the Cross: The Story of the Pope Who Brought the Light of Science to the Dark Ages
by:
Nancy Marie Brown
3.60 avg rating β 291 ratings
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The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
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Edward Gibbon
4.02 avg rating β 15,255 ratings
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A Short History of Byzantium
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John Julius Norwich
4.11 avg rating β 2,596 ratings
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The First Crusade: A New History
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Thomas Asbridge
4.13 avg rating β 1,631 ratings
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RakΓ³ssy
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Cecelia Holland
3.96 avg rating β 133 ratings
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Early Islam
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Desmond Stewart
3.83 avg rating β 65 ratings
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Poitiers AD 732: Charles Martel Turns the Islamic Tide (Campaign, 190)
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David Nicolle
3.73 avg rating β 56 ratings
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Siculo-Norman Art: Islamic Culture in Medieval Sicily
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Silvana Messina
4.29 avg rating β 7 ratings
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Avicenna Ibn Sina: Muslim Physician and Philosopher of the Eleventh Century
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Aisha Khan
3.90 avg rating β 29 ratings
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Avicenna and Medieval Muslim Philosophy
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Thomas Gaskill
3.74 avg rating β 124 ratings
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Averroes/ibn Rushd: Muslim Scholar, Philosopher, And Physician of Twelfth-century Al-andalus
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Liz Sonneborn
4.20 avg rating β 30 ratings
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The Ornament of the World: How Muslims, Jews, and Christians Created a Culture of Tolerance in Medieval Spain
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MarΓa Rosa Menocal
3.92 avg rating β 2,949 ratings
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Muslim Spain and Portugal: A Political History of al-Andalus
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Hugh Kennedy
3.92 avg rating β 155 ratings
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Moorish Spain
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Richard Fletcher
3.77 avg rating β 448 ratings
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Roger II of Sicily (Cambridge Medieval Textbooks)
by:
Houben
3.77 avg rating β 31 ratings
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The Art And Tradition Of The Zuloagas: Spanish Damascene from the Khalili Collection
by:
James D. Lavin
0.00 avg rating β 0 ratings
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Medieval Spain: Culture, Conflict and Coexistence
by:
Roger Collins
4.67 avg rating β 3 ratings
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The New Concise History of the Crusades
by:
Thomas F. Madden
4.03 avg rating β 654 ratings
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The Ottoman Empire: The Classical Age 1300-1600
by:
Halil Δ°nalcΔ±k
4.18 avg rating β 1,085 ratings
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The Ottoman Empire, 1300 - 1650: The Structure of Power
by:
Colin Imber
3.74 avg rating β 224 ratings
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The Ottoman Centuries: The Rise and Fall of the Turkish Empire
by:
John Patrick Douglas Balfour
4.05 avg rating β 1,006 ratings
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Constantinople: City of the World's Desire, 1453-1924
by:
Philip Mansel
3.96 avg rating β 435 ratings
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The Cambridge Illustrated History of the Islamic World
by:
Ira M. Lapidus
3.77 avg rating β 47 ratings
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What Life Was Like in the Lands of the Prophet: Islamic World, AD 570-1405
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Time-Life Books
3.71 avg rating β 38 ratings
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The Art and Architecture of Islam, 1250-1800
by:
Sheila S. Blair
4.14 avg rating β 71 ratings
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The Ottoman Empire and Early Modern Europe (New Approaches to European History, Series Number 24)
by:
Daniel Goffman
3.75 avg rating β 126 ratings
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The Crusades: The Authoritative History of the War for the Holy Land
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Thomas Asbridge
4.22 avg rating β 6,684 ratings
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The Cartoon History of the Universe III: From the Rise of Arabia to the Renaissance (The Cartoon History of the Universe, #3)
by:
Larry Gonick
4.31 avg rating β 2,152 ratings
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Accursed Tower: The Fall of Acre and the End of the Crusades
by:
Roger Crowley
3.95 avg rating β 687 ratings
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The Moor's Last Stand: How Seven Centuries of Muslim Rule in Spain Came to an End
by:
Elizabeth Drayson
3.85 avg rating β 216 ratings
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The Life of the Qur'an: From Eternal Roots to Enduring Legacy
by:
Mohamad Jebara
4.32 avg rating β 113 ratings
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The Cartoon History of the Modern World Part 2: From the Bastille to Baghdad (The Cartoon History of the Modern World, #2)
by:
Larry Gonick
4.32 avg rating β 714 ratings
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Abraham's Curse: The Roots of Violence in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam
by:
Bruce Chilton
3.48 avg rating β 44 ratings
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The Archaeology of Medieval Spain, 1100-1500
by:
Magdalena Valor (Ed.)
liked it 3.00 avg rating β 1 rating
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A History of the Ottoman Empire to 1730: Chapters from the Cambridge History of Islam and the New Cambridge Modern History
by:
V.J. Parry
3.67 avg rating β 6 ratings
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The Siege of Vienna: The Last Great Trial Between Cross and Crescent
by:
John Stoye
3.55 avg rating β 261 ratings
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The Wise King: A Christian Prince, Muslim Spain, and the Birth of the Renaissance
by:
Simon R. Doubleday
3.57 avg rating β 104 ratings
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The Islamization & Turkification of the City of Trabzon (Trebizond) 1461-1583
by:
Heath W. Lowry
3.47 avg rating β 17 ratings
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The Imperial Harem: Women and Sovereignty in the Ottoman Empire
by:
Leslie P. Peirce
4.23 avg rating β 249 ratings
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Lords of the Horizons: A History of the Ottoman Empire
by:
Jason Goodwin
3.64 avg rating β 1,585 ratings
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Jem Sultan: The Adventures of a Captive Turkish Prince in Renaissance Europe by John Freely (2004-07-19)
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John Freely
3.78 avg rating β 69 ratings
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The Great Siege: Malta 1565
by:
Ernle Bradford
4.38 avg rating β 2,675 ratings
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Islam: A Thousand Years of Faith and Power
by:
Jonathan M. Bloom
3.43 avg rating β 123 ratings
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Turkey The Story of Nations
by:
Stanley Lane-Poole
3.40 avg rating β 5 ratings
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Chronicles of the Crusades
by:
Jean de Joinville
3.83 avg rating β 1,523 ratings
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The Life and Times of Muhammad
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Sir Glubb
really liked it 4.00 avg rating β 37 ratings
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Islamic Civilization in Thirty Lives: The First 1,000 Years
by:
Chase F. Robinson
3.62 avg rating β 170 ratings
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Osman's Dream: The History of the Ottoman Empire
by:
Caroline Finkel
3.72 avg rating β 1,424 ratings
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The Bridge on the Drina (Bosnian Trilogy, #1)
by:
Ivo AndriΔ
4.33 avg rating β 24,214 ratings
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The Ultimate Ambition in the Arts of Erudition: A Compendium of Knowledge from the Classical Islamic World
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Shihab al-Din al-Nuwayri
3.84 avg rating β 184 ratings
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The Sons of Bayezid: Empire Building and Representation in the Ottoman Civil War of 1402-1413 (Ottoman Empire & Its Heritage, 38)
by:
Dimitris J. Kastritsis
3.83 avg rating β 24 ratings
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The First Crusade and the Idea of Crusading
by:
Jonathan Riley-Smith
3.79 avg rating β 156 ratings
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The Enemy At the Gate: Habsburgs, Ottomans and the Battle for Europe
by:
Andrew Wheatcroft
3.80 avg rating β 1,354 ratings
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The Sultan and the Queen: The Untold Story of Elizabeth and Islam
by:
Jerry Brotton
3.81 avg rating β 612 ratings
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The Making of Selim: Succession, Legitimacy, and Memory in the Early Modern Ottoman World
by:
H. Erdem ΓΔ±pa
4.11 avg rating β 19 ratings
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The Second Crusade: Extending the Frontiers of Christendom
by:
Jonathan Phillips
3.82 avg rating β 76 ratings
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Mehmed the Conqueror and His Time
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Franz Babinger
3.96 avg rating β 104 ratings
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A History of God: The 4000-Year Quest of Judaism, Christianity and Islam
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Karen Armstrong
3.89 avg rating β 51,735 ratings
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God Is Beautiful and Loves Beauty: The Object in Islamic Art and Culture
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Sheila S. Blair
4.33 avg rating β 3 ratings
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The Turks in World History
by:
Carter V. Findley
3.69 avg rating β 183 ratings
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The Conquest of Jerusalem and the Third Crusade
by:
Peter W. Edbury
3.94 avg rating β 50 ratings
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Sea of Faith: Islam and Christianity in the Medieval Mediterranean World
by:
Stephen O'Shea
3.99 avg rating β 415 ratings
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The Theft of India: The European Conquests of India, 1498-1765
by:
Roy Moxham
3.87 avg rating β 310 ratings
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The Middle Sea: A History of the Mediterranean
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John Julius Norwich
3.89 avg rating β 1,086 ratings
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Sicily: Three Thousand Years of Human History
by:
Sandra Benjamin
3.86 avg rating β 288 ratings
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The Sicilian Vespers: A History of the Mediterranean World in the Later Thirteenth Century
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Steven Runciman
4.22 avg rating β 504 ratings
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The House of Wisdom: How Arabic Science Saved Ancient Knowledge and Gave Us the Renaissance
by:
Jim Al-Khalili
3.95 avg rating β 1,478 ratings
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Averroes (Ibn Rushd): His Life, Work and Influence
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Majid Fakhry
3.69 avg rating β 29 ratings
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A Vanished World: Muslims, Christians, and Jews in Medieval Spain
by:
Chris Lowney
3.85 avg rating β 288 ratings
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Convivencia: Jews, Muslims, and Christians in Medieval Spain
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Vivian B. Mann
4.11 avg rating β 35 ratings
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Spain 1157 - 1300 A Partible Inheritance
by:
Peter Linehan
2.67 avg rating β 9 ratings
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A History of Islamic Spain
by:
William Montgomery Watt
3.49 avg rating β 216 ratings
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The Fires of Excellence: Spanish and Portuguese Oriental Architecture
by:
Miles Danby
3.43 avg rating β 7 ratings
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Andalusia: Art and Architecture
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Brigitte Hintzen-Bohlen
4.19 avg rating β 27 ratings
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Government and Society in Late Medieval Spain
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Glyn Redworth
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating β 1 rating
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Emperor of Culture: Alfonso X the Learned of Castile and His Thirteenth-Century Renaissance
by:
Robert Ignatius Burns
4.50 avg rating β 4 ratings
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Ferdinand and Isabella
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John Edwards
3.42 avg rating β 26 ratings
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Memoirs or Chronicle of the Fourth Crusade and the Conquest of Constantinople
by:
Geoffroi de Villehardouin
3.89 avg rating β 185 ratings
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The Fourth Crusade and the Sack of Constantinople
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Jonathan Phillips
4.08 avg rating β 860 ratings
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The Fall of Constantinople: The Ottoman Conquest of Byzantium
by:
David Nicolle
3.72 avg rating β 68 ratings
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The Fourth Crusade: The Conquest of Constantinople
by:
Donald E. Queller
4.06 avg rating β 95 ratings
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The Crusades
by:
Michael Paine
3.45 avg rating β 118 ratings
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Intimate Outsiders: The Harem in Ottoman and Orientalist Art and Travel Literature
by:
Mary Roberts
4.04 avg rating β 23 ratings
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Islamic Art and Architecture, 650-1250
by:
Richard Ettinghausen
3.92 avg rating β 150 ratings
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