Reddit reviews Mohammed and Charlemagne

I love how they leave out the part where the Ottoman empire were one of the biggest slave traders ever known to mankind.

And the part where they declared Jihad, no longer allowed pilgrims to Jersulem and the systemic oppression and mistreatment of Christians in their lands that led to the first crusades.

Sources, the first on is by a Belgian author I sadly never learned about in school. Second one is a rebuttal years later and third one a rebuttal of that.(1 2 3 )

Have the book as a .pdf if you want should be public domain

You should check him out if you have some free time. Very interesting read regarding the decline and fall of the Roman Empire. I read it alongside Gibbon, it's a very useful perspective and takes a more critical perspective on traditional understandings of the ending of the classical era and the beginning of the middle ages.

http://www.amazon.com/Mohammed-Charlemagne-Henri-Pirenne/dp/0486420116/ref=sr_1_sc_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1318814339&sr=8-1-spell