The Arabs in History
by Bernard Lewis | 
The Jews of Islam
by Bernard Lewis | 
The Middle East
by Bernard Lewis | 
From Babel to Dragomans
by Bernard Lewis | 
Islam and the West
by Bernard Lewis | 
A Middle East Mosaic
by Bernard Lewis | 
No god but God
by Reza Aslan | 
1453: The Holy War for Constantinople and the Clash of Islam and the West
by Roger Crowley | 
Caesar and Christ
by Will Durant | 
Servants of Allah
by Sylviane A. Diouf | 
The Wonder That Was India
by A. L. Basham | 
When They Come for Us, We'll Be Gone
by Gal Beckerman |
The Stations of the Sun
by Ronald Hutton |
The First Crusade
by Thomas Asbridge | 
Belonging
by Simon Schama | 
Magic in the Middle Ages
by Richard Kieckhefer | 
The Night Battles
by Carlo Ginzburg | 
A Religious History of the American People
by S. E. Ahlstrom | 
In the Shadow of the Sword
by Tom Holland | 
Jews, God, and History
by Max I. Dimont |
The eleventh-century Muslim world was a great civilization while Europe lay slumbering in the Dark Ages. Slowly, inevitably, Europe and Islam came together, through trade and war, crusade and diplomacy. The ebb and flow between these two worlds for seven hundred years, illuminated here by a brilliant historian, is one of the great sagas of world history.