Paul M. Cobb
Autore di The Race for Paradise: An Islamic History of the Crusades
Sull'Autore
Paul M. Cobb is Professor of Islamic History in the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations at the University of Pennsylvania. He is the author of White Banners: Contention in Abbasid Syria, 750-880 and Umayyad Legacies: Medieval Memories from Syria to Spain.
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- Data di nascita
- 1967-08-31
- Sesso
- male
- Nazionalità
- USA
- Luogo di nascita
- Northampton, Massachusetts, USA
- Istruzione
- University of Massachusetts, Amherst (BA)
University of Chicago (MA - Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, PhD - Islamic History) - Attività lavorative
- historian
- Organizzazioni
- Smith College
Wake Forest University
University of Notre Dame
University of Pennsylvania
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- 3
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- 2
- Utenti
- 163
- Popolarità
- #129,735
- Voto
- 4.1
- Recensioni
- 1
- ISBN
- 16
- Lingue
- 3
As a professional historian, then, Cobb has done a great job. You couldn't possibly read this and come away still thinking that the 'Crusades' were a clash of Christianity and Islam. But I doubt whether the average reader will get too much out of it other than that, which, given that our notional reader is picking up a book called 'An Islamic History of the Crusades,' she probably already knows. It took me about 18 months to read. It's less than 300 pages long. The chapter titles don't describe what's in the chapters. Why do historians insist on doing this? Just tell us what's in the chapters. It makes everyone's lives much easier.
That said, I trust him entirely, and he can write sentences. I'd very much like to read him on the less high-military-politics aspects of the period.… (altro)