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Chapter 14: Exposing Muslim Illusions

 

1.

Ahmed, 2006; Bridge, 1983; Crowley, 2005, 2008; Greenblatt, 2003; Palmer, 1994.

2.

Nicolle, 2000; Norwich, 1995; Runciman, 1965: 85.

3.

Nicolle, 2000.

4.

Turnbull, 2004.

5.

Crowley, 2005; Norwich, 1997: 374; Runciman, 1965: 77.

6.

Crowley, 2005: 94.

7.

Crowley, 2005; Norwich, 1997: 376.

8.

As described by Nicolò Barbaro, 1969.

9.

In Bostom, 2005: 616–17.

10.

He spent four years as a professor at Istanbul University.

11.

Runciman, 1965: 145–48.

12.

Quoted in Crowley, 2008: 3.

13.

Crowley, 2008.

14.

Quoted in Crowley, 2008: 11.

15.

To join, a man had to prove that he was from the nobility for at least four generations, on both sides of the family.

16.

Murphey, 1999.

17.

Crowley, 2008: 15.

18.

Ibid., 21.

19.

Turnbull, 2003.

20.

Millar, 2008; Stoye, 2007.

21.

Bradford, 1961: 13.

22.

Crowley, 2008: 95.

23.

Bradford, 1961: 37.

24.

Crowley, 2008: 96.

25.

Ibid., 102.

26.

Braudel, 1976: 2:1017.

27.

Sire, 1993: 68.

28.

Ibid., 70.

29.

Braudel, 1976: 2:1017.

30.

See Beeching, 1982: 85.

31.

Crowley, 2008: 196.

32.

Bicheno, 2004: 44–45.

33.

The gun deck was generally below the rowers, but in some models it sat above.

34.

Beeching, 1982: 192; Hanson, 2001: 260.

35.

Beeching, 1982: 192.

36.

Hanson, 2001: 262.

37.

Goldstone, 2009; Saliba, 2007.

38.

Lewis, 2002: 6.

39.

Ibid., 7.

40.

Ibid., 6.

41.

Moffett, 1992: 344.

42.

Hodgson, 1974: 1:298.

43.

Ibid.

44.

Hill, 1993: 10.

45.

Kollek and Pearlman, 1970: 59; Gil, 1992: 94.

46.

Bloom, 2007: 7.

47.

Hill, 1993.

48.

Nasr, 1993: 135–36.

49.

Ibid., 136.

50.

For examples of such claims, see Ajram, 1992.

51.

Quoted in Brickman, 1961: 85.

52.

Dickens, 1999: 8.

53.

Brickman, 1961: 84.

54.

In Peters, 1993: 90.

55.

Gil, 1992: 470.

56.

Quoted in Gil, 1992: 470.

57.

Pickthall, 1927.

58.

Farah, 1994: 199.

59.

Jaki, 1986: 208.

60.

See Colish, 1997; Stark, 2003: ch. 2.

61.

Stanley Lane-Pool, quoted in Fletcher, 1992: 172.

62.

Menocal, 2002.

63.

Hodgson, 1974: vol. 1.

64.

Ibid., 1:268.

65.

Payne [1959] 1995: 105.

66.

Hodgson, 1974; Payne [1959] 1995.

67.

For this section, I draw on my own research and writing for
The Triumph of Christianity.
See Stark, 2011.

68.

Little, 1976: 563.

69.

Ibid., 567.

70.

Quoted in Little, 1976: 568.

71.

Browne [1933] 1967: 163.

72.

In Foltz, 2000: 129.

73.

Browne [1933] 1967: 167.

74.

Ibid., 169.

75.

Jenkins, 2008.

76.

Browne [1933] 1967: 170.

77.

Ibid., 171.

78.

Marozzi, 2004: 264.

79.

Hookham, 1981: 424.

80.

Moffett, 1992: 485.

81.

Jenkins, 2008: 138.

82.

Hodgson, 1974; Kister, 1986; Rodinson, 1980.

83.

Rodinson, 1980: 213.

84.

Stark, 2001.

85.

Ibid.

86.

Alroy, 1975.

Chapter 15: Science Comes of Age

 

1.

“Every body persists in its state of being at rest or of moving straight forward, except insofar as it is compelled to change its state by force impressed.” Newton [1687] 1971: 13.

2.

Shapin, 1996: 1.

3.

Stark, 2003, 2005, 2011.

4.

Gribbin, 2005: xiv.

5.

Hannam, 2011b: 48.

6.

Bloch [1940] 1961: 83.

7.

This data set differs slightly from the version that appeared in my earlier version. See Stark, 2003.

8.

Russell, 1959: 232.

9.

Kearney, 1964: especially 95.

10.

Kearney, 1964; Rabb, 1965

11.

Shapiro, 1968: 288.

12.

Kocher, 1953: 4.

13.

Gascoigne, 1990.

14.

Westfall, 1971: 105.

15.

Gribben, 2005: 125.

16.

Kearney, 1964: 94.

17.

Gascoigne, 1990: table 5.1.

18.

Grant, 1984: 68.

19.

Ozment, 1980: 191.

20.

Rashdall [1936] 1977: 3:408.

21.

Kearney, 1964: 100.

22.

Stone, 1964.

23.

Stone, 1972: 75.

24.

McCloskey, 2010: 403.

25.

Whitehead [1925] 1967: 13.

26.

Ibid., 12.

27.

René Descartes,
Oeuvres
: book 8, ch. 61.

28.

In Crosby, 1997: 83.

29.

Whitehead [1925] 1967: 13.

30.

Needham, 1954: 581.

31.

Lindberg, 1992: 54.

32.

I have written extensively on this in Stark, 2003: ch. 2.

33.

In Bradley, 2001: 160.

34.

In Merton, 1938: 447.

35.

Einstein, 1987, 131.

36.

Quoted in Finocchiaro, 2009: 68.

37.

Ibid.

38.

Drake and O’Malley, 1960.

39.

Brooke and Cantor, 1998: 20.

40.

Ibid., 110.

41.

Shea, 1986: 132.

42.

Mason, 1950.

43.

Landes, 1994: 649.

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