BOOK SCANS

Sept. 14
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Some scanned pages from books I just read... Not really intended to photographically copy the images (else I would have used higher resolution & exact positioning) but to be used as tempting intro presentations to general readers who can either obtain [buy or borrow & not STEAL (Remember: to STOLE is NOT THE SAME as to STEAL!)] the books...

ANDREW WHEATCROFT
INFIDELS: A HISTORY OF THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CHRISTENDOM & ISLAM
PENGUIN BOOKS

Book Review at:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2004/may/22/featuresreviews.guardianreview23
and also at:
http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/reviews/infidels-by-andrew-wheatcroft-590265.html

The AMAZON.COM ad shows a different cover from that available at UP MAIN LIB whose cover is exactly as shown in Nicholas Lezard's review.

3 MAPS:

The CRUSADES covered several theatres though not all at the same time:
the IBERIAN peninsula (SPAIN & PORTUGAL vs. the MOORs
which is directly related to the MINDANAW MORO PROBLEM),
the Eastern theatre at the LEVANT (MIDDLE EAST) & the BALKANS
(TODAY's YUGOSLAVIA,KOSOVO, CROATIA, SERBIA...)
The MUSLIMs pincer thrusts were stopped by CHARLES MARTEL
(Hmmm... Moros, remember PAF Major? or Col.? EduardoMARTELino
who allegedly was a BALIK-ISLAAM?!)
at the Battle of Poitiers somewhere in France and also at Vienna, Austria...
If these did not happen, then EUROPE would be MUSLIM territory now!!!
Just as I BELIEVE, if PORTUGAL & SPAIN did not arrive in 1511 (Malaccca) & 1521 (Cebu)
then the WHOLE PHILIPPINE ARCHIPELAGO would be MUSLIM today!
And, I AVER, even the island of FORMOSA/TAIWAN and even Southern JAPAN!!!
YES, dear readers, if the EUROPEANS did not arrive in the 16th Century
then JAPAN now would be facing a SEPARATIST MUSLIM problem in its southern island territories!!!
THIS IS MY (JAMAAL al Haqqer di NUSANTARA's) CLAIM/VIEW!
You may STOLE it & use it as THESIS in graduate history course...Just mention your source = my name HAR!)

IBERIA & AL ANDALUS (Andalusia)

THE LEVANT & BALKANS

2 PICTURES:

ANDALUSIA, ALHAMBRA, FERDINAND & ISABELLA II Y LOS MOROS

CORDOBA, JERUSALEM
Even the PHILIPPINES's famous painter JUAN LUNA is mentioned
(YEHEY ang mga PINOYs naka-EXTRA sa isang AKLAT INTERNASYONAL! NAKS NAMAN!)

Sa tutoo lang, ang BABABAW N'YO !!!

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HAR HAR DE HAR!

TMNP