Author:
Ibn Warraq.
Edition Statement:1st ed.
Imprint:Nashville, TN : New English Review Press a subsidiary of World Encounter Institute, c2013.
Descriptionxiv, 258 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Note:Ivanhoe, the Jews and Saracens, with digressions on Blacks and Jews in Britain, and other sundry subjects. Ivanhoe (1819) ; Sir Walter Scott and the Jews ; Twelfth century England ; Edgar Rosenberg : from Shylock to Svengali ; Aftermath of Ivanhoe -- The talisman, the Crusades, Richard I of England and Saladin : myths, legends and history. Genesis of an idea ; The betrothed and Count Robert of Paris ; The First Crusade : the call from the East ; The talisman : Saladin vs. Richard the Lionheart ; The talisman ; An analysis of The talisman ; History ; The Third Crusade and Saladin in historiography ; Saladin in Western art : the genesis of a myth ; Conclusions: Crusades not barbaric ; The historiography of the Crusades -- Jews and the Crusades. Islamic antisemitism before 1096 ; The massacres of 1096 -- The plight of Jews in north West Africa under Islam between 1148-1912 -- George Eliot, Daniel Deronda, & Zionism : some observations. Christopher Hitchens, Edward Said, and Daniel Deronda ; British Zionism ; Charlotte Elizabeth and the restoration of the Jews ; Edward Said and the question of Palestine ; John Stuart Mill and racism -- South Park, Islam and self-censorship. Representation in Islam ; New York Supreme Court, 1955 ; The need to defend our values ; Islamic art in American museums showing representations of Muhammad ; Censorship under Islam : the case of Taha Hussein ; Western appeasement in modern times : the Rushdie affair ; Subsequent developments : post Satanic verses ; Fanaticism, or Muhammad the prophet ; Danish cartoons ; Obama and self-censorship : or the importance of saying Islamic, Islamic, Islamic, over and over again ; South Park and the importance of comedy ; Conclusion.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references and index.
