5 Top islam books like Kingdoms of Faith: A New History of Islamic Spain by Brian Catlos

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Kingdoms of Faith: A New History of Islamic Spain

By: Brian Catlos

4.00

Format: 496 pages, Hardcover

A magisterial, myth-dispelling history of Islamic Spain spanning the millennium between the foundin…

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1. The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy

By: John J. Mearsheimer , Stephen M. Walt

4.07

Format: 484 pages, Hardcover

The Israel Lobby," by John J. Mearsheimer of the University of Chicago and Stephen M. Walt of Harva… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
Cover of The Ornament of the World: How Muslims, Jews, and Christians Created a Culture of Tolerance in Medieval Spain by Harold Bloom, María Rosa Menocal

2. The Ornament of the World: How Muslims, Jews, and Christians Created a Culture of Tolerance in Medieval Spain

By: Harold Bloom , María Rosa Menocal

4.10

Format: 271 pages, Paperback

Undoing the familiar notion of the Middle Ages as a period of religious persecution and intellectua… read more

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  • islam
  • history
  • spain
  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • european history
  • medieval

3. In God's Path: The Arab Conquests and the Creation of an Islamic Empire

By: Robert G. Hoyland

3.76

Format: 6 pages, Hardcover

In just over a hundred years--from the death of Muhammad in 632 to the beginning of the Abbasid Cal… read more

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  • history
  • islam
  • world history
  • religion
  • nonfiction
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4. Mohammed and Charlemagne

By: Henri Pirenne

4.71

Format: 595 pages, Paperback

The final work of the great Belgian historian Henri Pirenne, this remarkable classic -- published a… read more

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  • islam
  • history
  • medieval history
  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • european history
  • medieval
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5. A Great and Terrible King: Edward I and the Forging of Britain

By: Marc Morris

3.95

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

This is the first major biography for a generation of a truly formidable king - a man born to rule … read more

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  • medieval
  • nonfiction
  • history
  • medieval history
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6. The Korean War

By: Max Hastings

3.75

Format: 148 pages, Paperback

It was the first war we could not win. At no other time since World War II have two superpowers met… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history

7. The Thirty Years War: Europe's Tragedy

By: Peter H. Wilson

3.93

Format: 316 pages, Hardcover

A deadly continental struggle, the Thirty Years War devastated seventeenth-century Europe, killing … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • european history

8. The Great Mortality: An Intimate History of the Black Death, the Most Devastating Plague of All Time

By: John Kelly

4.25

Format: 151 pages, Paperback

La moria grandissimabegan its terrible journey across the European and Asian continents in 1347, le… read more

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9. Byzantium: The Surprising Life of a Medieval Empire

By: Judith Herrin

3.73

Format: 32 pages, Hardcover

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10. The Fall of the Ottomans: The Great War in the Middle East

By: Eugene Rogan

3.60

Format: 212 pages, Hardcover

In 1914 the Ottoman Empire was depleted of men and resources after years of war against Balkan nati… read more

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11. Caesar: Life of a Colossus

By: Adrian Goldsworthy

4.22

Format: 583 pages, Hardcover

Tracing the extraordinary trajectory of the great Roman emperor’s life, Goldsworthy covers not only… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
"Caesar was a serial seducer of married women."

-Adrian Goldsworthy, Caesar: Life of a Colossus

"Pompey contented himself with repulsing the attack and made no attempt to assault Caesar's line. This was widely felt to have been a mistake... and Caesar declared that the enemy 'would have won toda…"

-Adrian Goldsworthy, Caesar: Life of a Colossus

12. The Templars: The Rise and Spectacular Fall of God's Holy Warriors

By: Dan Jones

4.08

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A major new history of the knights Templar--holy warriors, bankers, priests, heretics--by the bests… read more

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13. Dogs of God: Columbus, the Inquisition, and the Defeat of the Moors

By: James Reston Jr.

4.00

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

From the acclaimed author of Warriors of Godcomes a riveting account of the pivotal events of 1492,… read more

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14. Tales of the Alhambra

By: Washington Irving

3.66

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

Tales of the Alhambra is a collection of essays, verbal sketches, and stories by Washington Irving.… read more

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15. Ghosts of Spain: Travels Through Spain and Its Silent Past

By: Giles Tremlett

3.66

Format: 32 pages,

The appearance, more than sixty years after the Spanish Civil War ended, of mass graves containing … read more

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16. The Crusades: The Authoritative History of the War for the Holy Land

By: Thomas Asbridge

4.22

Format: 784 pages, Hardcover

The Crusades is an authoritative, accessible single-volume history of the brutal struggle for the H… read more

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  • history
  • world history
  • medieval history
  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • european history
  • medieval
"The Lionheart had arrived."

-Thomas Asbridge, The Crusades: The Authoritative History of the War for the Holy Land

"Zangi was now sixty-two and still in remarkably rude health."

-Thomas Asbridge, The Crusades: The Authoritative History of the War for the Holy Land

"Time and again in the Middle Ages, warrior-kings, seen by their men in the thick of fighting, turned the tide of battle, assuring victory."

-Thomas Asbridge, The Crusades: The Authoritative History of the War for the Holy Land

"The first Latin up a ladder was Aubery Clements, marshal of France, one of Philip’s leading knights. It was said later among the Christians’ forces that, before climbing the breach, Aubery had called…"

-Thomas Asbridge, The Crusades: The Authoritative History of the War for the Holy Land

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17. España: A Brief History of Spain

By: Giles Tremlett

4.00

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Bestselling author Giles Tremlett traverses the rich and varied history of Spain, from prehistoric … read more

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  • history
  • world history
  • spain
  • nonfiction
  • european history
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18. The Anglo-Saxons A History of the Beginnings of England: 400–1066

By: Marc Morris

4.34

Format: 508 pages, Hardcover

A sweeping and original history of the Anglo-Saxons by national bestselling author Marc Morris. … read more

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  • history
  • world history
  • medieval history
  • nonfiction
  • european history
  • medieval
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19. A Day in the Life of Abed Salama: Anatomy of a Jerusalem Tragedy

By: Nathan Thrall

4.35

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

WINNER OF THE 2024 PULITZER PRIZE FOR GENERAL NON-FICTION Named a Best Book of the Year by The N… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • religion
  • history
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20. The Lion House

By: Christopher de Bellaigue

3.66

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Venice, 1522. Twenty-three men in robes of scarlet and blue assemble to hear the most sensitive int… read more

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  • history
  • world history
  • nonfiction
  • european history
  • medieval
"The trouble with big empires is that the enemy is far away and there is weather in between."

-Christopher de Bellaigue, The Lion House

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21. On Grand Strategy

By: John Lewis Gaddis

3.75

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

A master class in strategic thinking, distilled from the legendary program the author has co-taught… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
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22. The Bright Ages: A New History of Medieval Europe

By: Matthew Gabriele

3.65

Format: 307 pages, Hardcover

A lively and magisterial popular history that refutes common misperceptions of the European Middle … read more

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  • history
  • world history
  • medieval history
  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • european history
  • medieval
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23. The Ottomans: Khans, Caesars and Caliphs

By: Marc David Baer

3.95

Format: 560 pages, Hardcover

This major new history of the Ottoman dynasty reveals a diverse empire that straddled East and West… read more

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  • islam
  • history
  • world history
  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • european history
  • medieval
Cover of Conquistadores: A New History of Spanish Discovery and Conquest by Fernando Cervantes

24. Conquistadores: A New History of Spanish Discovery and Conquest

By: Fernando Cervantes

3.90

Format: 496 pages, Hardcover

A sweeping, authoritative history that aims to deepen our understanding of the campaigns and conque… read more

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  • history
  • world history
  • spain
  • spanish history
  • nonfiction
  • european history
Cover of A People Betrayed: A History of Corruption, Political Incompetence and Social Division in Modern Spain by Paul Preston

25. A People Betrayed: A History of Corruption, Political Incompetence and Social Division in Modern Spain

By: Paul Preston

4.00

Format: 768 pages, Hardcover

Nowhere does the ceaseless struggle to maintain democracy in the face of political corruption come … read more

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  • history
  • spain
  • spanish history
  • nonfiction
  • european history
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26. Kingdoms of Faith: A New History of Islamic Spain

By: Brian Catlos

4.00

Format: 496 pages, Hardcover

A magisterial, myth-dispelling history of Islamic Spain spanning the millennium between the foundin… read more

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  • islam
  • history
  • world history
  • spain
  • medieval history
  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • european history
  • spanish history
  • medieval
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27. A Travel Guide to the Middle Ages: The World Through Medieval Eyes

By: Anthony Bale

3.76

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

A captivating journey of the expansive world of medieval travel, from London to Constantinople to t… read more

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  • history
  • world history
  • medieval history
  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • medieval
"travel opens the mind in unpredictable ways"

-Anthony Bale, A Travel Guide to the Middle Ages: The World Through Medieval Eyes

"Jerusalem is a city of unfinished projects."

-Anthony Bale, A Travel Guide to the Middle Ages: The World Through Medieval Eyes

"Travel forms communities, but not always harmoniously."

-Anthony Bale, A Travel Guide to the Middle Ages: The World Through Medieval Eyes

"Holy ground can look startlingly ordinary, especially when one’s standing on it."

-Anthony Bale, A Travel Guide to the Middle Ages: The World Through Medieval Eyes

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28. Muse of Fire: World War I as Seen Through the Lives of the Soldier Poets

By: Michael Korda

4.10

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

The First World War comes to harrowing life through the intertwined lives of the soldier-poets in M… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
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29. Ravenna: Capital of Empire, Crucible of Europe

By: Judith Herrin

3.92

Format: 576 pages, Hardcover

In 402 AD, after invading tribes broke through the Alpine frontiers of Italy and threatened the imp… read more

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  • history
  • medieval history
  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • european history
  • medieval
Cover of A Short History of Christian Zionism: From the Reformation to the Twenty-First Century by Donald M. Lewis

30. A Short History of Christian Zionism: From the Reformation to the Twenty-First Century

By: Donald M. Lewis

4.38

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

This book is about an idea--namely, that Scripture mandates a Jewish return to the historical regio… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • religion
  • history
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31. Autocracy, Inc.

By: Anne Applebaum

4.28

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

All of us have in our minds a cartoon image of what an autocratic state looks like, with a bad man … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
"Americans who rarely think about Russia would be stunned to learn how much time Russian state television devotes to America’s culture wars, especially arguments over gender. Putin himself has display…"

-Anne Applebaum, Autocracy, Inc.

"Isolationism is an instinctive and even understandable reaction to the ugliness of the modern interconnected world. For some politicians in democracies, it will continue to offer a successful path to…"

-Anne Applebaum, Autocracy, Inc.

"The temptation of what is sometimes called realism—the belief that nations are solely motivated by a struggle for power, that they have eternal interests and permanent geopolitical orientations—is as…"

-Anne Applebaum, Autocracy, Inc.

24 Best history books like Kingdoms of Faith: A New History of Islamic Spain by Brian Catlos

Transform Your Habits

The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy

John J. Mearsheimer , Stephen M. Walt

4.07

Transform Your Habits

The Ornament of the World: How Muslims, Jews, and Christians Created a Culture of Tolerance in Medieval Spain

Harold Bloom , María Rosa Menocal

4.10

In God's Path: The Arab Conquests and the Creation of an Islamic Empire

Robert G. Hoyland

3.76

Transform Your Habits

Mohammed and Charlemagne

Henri Pirenne

4.71

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The Fires of Vesuvius: Pompeii Lost and Found

Mary Beard

3.63

Transform Your Habits

Justinian: Emperor, Soldier, Saint

Peter Sarris

4.29

Transform Your Habits

Dynasty: The Rise and Fall of the House of Caesar

Tom Holland

4.15

Transform Your Habits

Pax: War and Peace in Rome's Golden Age

Tom Holland

4.22

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