He felt the Crusades represent a sort of reversal of today's Christian/Muslim conflict:-"Like the Crusaders, the Muslim extremists are resorting to barbarism and brutality to fight a war they feel they cannot win any other way." Pasha delivers a wonderful religious sensitivity throughout the novel. Kamran Pasha, a former Hollywood film and television screenwriter, relates how he was inspired to tell this story after 9/11. The author's beautiful writing occasionally veers into purple prose, but I didn't mind- it was all rather fun! This is the kind of book I love- one where I can learn a lot of history and get swept away to a faraway place and time.Most interesting to me were the author's notes at the back. Richard the Lionheart leads the armies of France to reclaim the Holy Lands from the sultan Saladin. Beneath the cheesy painting on the cover lies an exciting story of the Third Crusade in the year 1192. Read moreĭon't judge this book by its cover. Disturbed me, until I realized his premise, and put a desire to read more about the Crusades. There were scenes I completely skipped for its bedroom activity. Which during war at this time may have been sanctioned.īut his biased view of Moslems co-existing peacefully with Jews because of the same God has never shown in true history. The author did present an interesting view of the Crusaders-uneducated, heathen, destroying everything in their path.
A nice fiction premise, but not based on the doctrines of any one of the groups presented in the book. The premise of seeing our differences and yet knowing we are trying to live nicely and worship some god is very strong in the book.
If you know Christ, He has said, "I am the only way." If you have read the Torah, you know Israel's God is a jealous God and does not share with others. If you have read the Koran and the Moslem's doctrine, you know they do not allow others to co-exist with them. That we should all get along and not fight. If you understand that the author's premise is that all gods are the same, that Alleh, Yahweh and Christ is the same God, then you can reach the same conclusion that he did.
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