Buku Holy War ditulis oleh John J O'Neill. Beliau penulis yang punya sentimen memburuk dan menyerang Islam. Antara tokoh dan penulis lain yang senada beliau adalah Bernard Lewis dan Thomas Madden. Antara penulisan Madden adalah artikel "Crusade Propaganda" dan buku tentang tajuk Crusades.
Sedikit petikan:
Ada review yang menolak penulisan HW;
Great book only bad points are the anti islamic political stance . Also the illig thesis I was not convinced -(link).
Baca sama 'The Crusade: a responses to Islamic aggression'. artikel 10 m/surat oleh penulis buku HW (link).
Pandangan yang berbeza boleh kita dapat dari contohnya tulisan David Levering Lewis.
Notwithstanding these voices of dissent, the view that yet prevails in popular culture and indeed in academia is of an advanced, cultured and urbane Islamic civilization subjected to an almost entirely unprovoked attack by a backward and semi-barbarous Europe. This is the view, for example, expressed in David Levering Lewis' recently published, God's Crucible: Islam and the making of Europe, 570-1215, and it is one that is predicated upon the belief - still almost universally held - that for centuries (during the so-called "Dark Ages") Europe was a semi-literate and semi-savage backwater, a cultural graveyard mired in poverty, brutality and illiteracy.
O'Neill juga mengkritik pandangan dan tulisan sejarawan Marcus Bull dalam The Oxford History of Crusade. O'Neill menulis seperti berikut:
The line of reasoning taken by Marcus Bull in his examination of the origins of the Crusades in The Oxford History of the Crusades. In an article of almost 10,000 words, Bull fails to consider the Muslim threat at all. Indeed he mentions it only to dismiss it.
Baca juga 'Jerusalem: from muslim to christian city' - medievalist (link).
Terbitan 2009
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