Jihad in the West : Muslim conquests from the 7th to the 21st centuries / Paul Fregosi.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 417-425) and index.

Glossary of Useful Arabic and Turkish Terms -- Introduction: The Holy War That Isn't -- 1. The Beginnings: Mecca 570-622 -- 2. Gabriel Cometh: Medina 622-632 -- 3. The First Battles -- 4. A Man of Many Parts -- 5. When the Killing Had to Stop -- 6. A Man of His Time -- 7. Of Bones and Stones -- 8. A Paradise for Warriors -- 9. Onward Muslim Soldiers: Byzantium and Persia 632-640 -- 10. The Island Campaign: Cyprus, Rhodes, and Crete 649-668 -- 11. Checkmate on the Bosporus: Constantinople 668-673 -- 12. The Toledo Whore: Spain 710 -- 13. The Mountain of Tarik: Spain 711 -- 14. A Conqueror's Fate: Spain 711-715 -- 15. The Forgotten Isaurian: Constantinople 717-718 -- 16. The Dhimmis: Dar-al-Islam from the Seventh Century Onward -- 17. Forays into France: The Languedoc 718-732 -- 18. The Hammer of the Franks: Tours 732-759 -- 19. The Umayyad Takeover: Spain 756-852 -- 20. The Long Resistance: Sicily 827-902 -- 21. The French Riviera Campaign: St. Tropez 898-973 --

22. The Corpses of Simancas: Spain 912-961 -- 23. Aurora's Lover: Santiago de Compostela 967-1002 -- 24. Exeunt the Umayyads: Spain 1085 -- 25. The Desert Warrior: Zalaca 1085-1086 -- 26. Mio Cid: Valencia 1080-1108 -- 27. Liberation in Lusitania: Portugal 1079-1147 -- 28. Whence the Greeks and Normans: Sicily 1025-1091 -- 29. The African Takeover: Spain 1104-1212 -- 30. The Year of Decision: Las Navas de Tolosa 1212 -- 31. The Muslim Debacle: Spain 1212-1250 -- 32. Five Cities to Go: Andalusia 1230-1248 -- 33. The Ottoman Advent: Turkey mid-1200s -- 34. The Mongolian Horde: Russia 1340-1480 -- 35. Janissaries Ahoy: Thrace 1301-1353 -- 36. The Gay Revolt: Thrace 1376-1388 -- 37. The Field of Blackbirds: Kosovo 1389 -- 38. The Wild Knights of France: Nicopolis 1396 -- 39. The Hungarian Hero: Varna 1444 -- 40. The Last Agony: Constantinople 1453 -- 41. The Road to Rome: Belgrade 1456 -- 42. The Sigh of the Moor: Granada 1492 --

43. The Ottoman Empire: Selim the Grim 1512-1520 -- 44. The Red Danube: Mohacs 1526 -- 45. The Untaken Capital: Vienna 1529 -- 46. Sailors, Slavers, and Raiders: The Mediterranean 1504-1546 -- 47. In Arms Always and Prepared for Combat: Malta 1565 -- 48. The Rhapsody of Death: Hungary 1566 -- 49. The Alpujarras Rising: Spain 1568-1570 -- 50. The Flaying of Bragadino: Famagusta 1571 -- 51. A Good Day to Die: Lepanto 1572 -- 52. Colonialism Muslim Style: Eastern Europe 1574-1681 -- 53. Never Was There a Victory More Complete: Vienna 1683 -- 54. The Jihad Totters: Greece and Hungary 1685-1699 -- 55. The Gravediggers: Central and Southeastern Europe 1716-1770 -- 56. The Orloff-Suvarov Duet: The Mediterranean and Crimea 1770-1792 -- 57. To the Shores of Tripoli: North Africa 1798-1830 -- 58. The Surrogates of Pericles: Greece 1821-1827 -- 59. Wars Galore: The Balkans 1828-1878 -- 60. The Great Unholy Wars: Dar-al-Harb 1912-1945 -- 61. Terrorism: The West 1980s-1990s --

Epilogue: An Action in All Its Luster.

Jihad in the West is the first and only general history of the Jihad, with a concentration on Europe. Paul Fregosi gives an account of the universal and little-known Islamic military invasions of Europe and the major players who led them, as well as the mighty warriors who opposed them.