This volume provides an updated history of Sudan from the first contacts between the Muslim Arabs and the Christian Nubians to the... Læs mere
Peter Holt uses, and to some extent reinterprets, the medieval Arabic sources, to present a picture which differs in important respects from the conventional western-orientated view.
Although the crusader states in the Holy Land were never hugely powerful in themselves, they had significance out of all proportion to their size for... Læs mere