بيت الحرب .. الصراع بين العالم المسيحي والخلافة

House of War...the conflict between Christendom and the Caliphate “A captivating history,” Charles Moore, _Spectator Magazine._ This book provides a detailed history of the most important military confrontations between Islam and Christianity over the course of 1,300 years of the Islamic Caliphate. From the conquest of the Holy City of Jerusalem in the seventh century AD by Caliph Omar ibn al-Khattab, until the collapse of the Ottoman Empire following the end of World War I, Christian popes, emperors and kings, and Muslim caliphs and sultans, engaged in a 1,300-year-long struggle for political, military, intellectual, economic and religious supremacy. In this valuable historical work, Simon Mayall, an acknowledged expert on the history of the Middle East and the Crusades, focuses on some of the most important armed confrontations in human history: the conquest and restoration of Jerusalem and the collapse of the Crusader principalities; Fall of Constantinople; Sieges of Rhodes and Malta; The attack on Vienna and the peak of the Ottoman advance in Europe. These events culminated in the Allied capture of Jerusalem in World War I, the eventual collapse of the Ottoman Empire, the disintegration of the sultanate and caliphate, and the formation of modern Europe and the Middle East. The House of War provides a broad and comprehensive narrative, covering the broad historical and religious context of this period, focusing on some of the major and pivotal sieges and battles, and on the political and military figures who determined their outcomes and consequences.