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A view of Islamic civilization that runs counter to that provided by 19th-century Western Orientalists and 20th-century Islamic fundamentalists. The novels cover a vast period, beginning with the conquest of the Iberian peninsula in the 8th century, via the liberation of Jerusalem by the armies of Saladin in the 12th century, to the rise and decline of the Ottoman Empire.Anderson, Benedict R. O'G. is the author of 'Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism' with ISBN 9780860915461 and ISBN 0860915468.
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