Word: reconquest
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...critical analysis that has been applied to Jewish problems of the past should be focused on the Jewish condition of the present. For example, he raises the question of how the fate of the Jewish people should be interpreted not only after Auschwitz, but in the light of their reconquest of Old Jerusalem last year. "A straightforward theological confrontation with the facts of recent Jewish history," Rubenstein insists, "painful though it may be, is an act of religious and psychological therapy urgently needed by the Jewish community...
...Latin kingdom founded by the Crusaders lasted scarcely a century. Recaptured by the Saracen King Saladin in 1187, Jerusalem remained in Moslem hands, except for a brief 15-year Christian reconquest, until World War I. The long sleep under Islam brought little peace, however, as Moslems battled for Jerusalem among themselves. The Saracens were soon overthrown by their Egyptian slave guards, the Mamelukes. The Mamelukes were in turn driven out by the Ottoman Turks, who captured the Holy City in 1517 and ruled it for 400 years. Though Christians were allowed to return to the city, a dispute between Greek...
...French aristocrat who had donned a monk's cassock. Urban's purposes were to help Byzantium resist the Turkish onslaught, heal the schism between the Churches of Rome and Constantinople, and harness the anarchic violence of the feudal soldiery in the service of a righteous cause-the reconquest of the Holy Sepulcher from the Moslem infidel...
...against heretics. Although isolated from other Christian groups by Islam's triumph in the East, the Maronites always maintained their loyalty to the Pope; when the knights of the First Crusade landed in the Middle East, Maronites were there to help them set up camp. After the Saracen reconquest, the Maronites fought to maintain their independence in fortresses in the Lebanon mountains, provided refuge for other Christians, and even dissident Moslem groups, who were persecuted by the Arabs and Turks...
...Campesino set up camp in the Pyrenees, styling himself "Chief of the General Staff for the Reconquest of Spain," and kept crossing the border into Spain on minor raids. Last week the small private war was halted owing to a larger war that El Campesino had nothing to do with-Algeria...