Crusade and Jihad: The Thousand-Year War Between the Muslim World and the Global North

What really happened in the centuries of conflict between Europe, Russia, China, America, and the peoples of the Muslim world

Crusade and Jihad is the first book to encompass, in one volume, the entire history of the catastrophic encounter between the Global North—China, Russia, Europe, Britain, and America—and Muslim societies from Central Asia to West Africa. William R. Polk draws on more than half a century of experience as a historian, policy planner, diplomat, peace negotiator, and bus...