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In this comprehensive analysis of Arabic poetry during the period of the crusades (sixth/twelfth-seventh/thirteenth centuries), Osman Latiff provides an insightful examination of the poets who inspired Muslims to unite in the jihād against the Franks. The Cutting Edge of the Poet’s Sword not only contributes to our understanding of literary history, it also illuminates a broad spectrum of religiosity and the role of political propaganda in the anti-Frankish Muslim struggle. Latiff shows how poets, often used by the ruling elite to promote their rule, emphasised the centrality of Islam’s holy sites to inspire the Muslim response to the occupation and later reconquest of Jerusalem, and expressed some surprising views of Frankish Christians.

Arabic poetry --- Crusades in literature. --- Jihad in literature. --- Revolutionary poetry, Arabic --- War and literature --- History and criticism --- History and criticism. --- Islamic Empire. --- Islam --- Thematology --- Arabic literature --- History of civilization --- History of Asia --- anno 1100-1199 --- Jerusalem --- Literature and war --- Literature --- Arabic revolutionary poetry

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This book focuses on American political discourse connected to war, dissent, and empathy. Through interdisciplinary methods of history, politics and media studies, the book examines ways in which American self-identity alters as a consequence of media portrayal of human suffering and of its existential others. It compares representations of the Iraq wars to earlier precedents and looks at the work of American activists, assessing how narratives and images of human suffering in new media iconography generate empathic attitudes towards others. This comparative, multimodal study helps to explain shifting self-identities within the U.S, and relationally through the representation of the Arab other presenting an original and historicised contribution to the media-war field of academic and public debate. The book underscores empathy as a vibrant category of analysis that expands how we think about West-Arab relations, revealing how understanding the cultural aspects of this conflictual interrelationship needs to be broadened. .

Sociology --- International relations. Foreign policy --- Legal theory and methods. Philosophy of law --- Law of civil procedure --- Mass communications --- sociologie --- communicatie --- massamedia --- meditatie --- conflictbemiddeling --- internationale betrekkingen