Arab History & Culture

The companion guide to the video series Christianity and Islam with Dr. Timothy George recommends the following books on the Arab history and culture:

Hitti, Philip K. The Arabs: A Short History, NY: The McMillan Company, 1951.

LeBon, G. The World of Islamic Civilization, Tudor Publishing Co. 1974.

Lewis, Bernard, Ed. Islam and the Arab World, Alfred A. Knopf, 1976.

Patai, Raphael. The Arab Mind, Charles Scribner’s Sons, NY, 1973.

Steward, Desmond. Mecca, Newsweek, NY, 1980.

The Crusades

The companion guide to the video series Christianity and Islam with Dr. Timothy George recommends the following books on the Crusades:

Belloc, Hillaire. The Crusades: The World’s Debate . Tan Books, Rockford, Ill., 1992.

Maier, Christoph T. Preaching the Crusades: Mendicant Friars and the Cross in the Thirteenth Century , Cambridge University Press, 1994.

Runciman, Steve. The First Crusade (abridged), Cambridge University Press, 1980. Orignially volume one of The History of the Crusades, 1951.