Tancred or The New Crusade which is highly recommended for fans of political fiction contains the second volume of Benjamin Disraeli's 1847 novel. The storyline revolves around the role of the Church of England in rejuvenating Britain's waning spirituality. It sharing a number of characters with the earlier novels but unlike them is concerned less with the political and social condition of England than with a religious and even mystical theme: the question of how Judaism and Christianity are to be reconciled and the Church reborn as a progressive force.


"There is no doubt that the founders of this privileged and territorial class whatever may be the present creeds of its members Moslemin Maronite or Druse were the old Arabian conquerors of Syria. The Turks conquerors in their turn have succeeded in some degree in the plain to the estates and immunities of the followers of the first caliphs; but the Ottomans never substantially prevailed in the Highlands and their authority has been recognised mainly by management and as a convenient compromise amid the rivalries of so many local ambitions."