Richard Warren Field’s The Swords of Faith (2010) articulates its understanding of Islam’s relationships with the West through retrospectively revisiting the Third Crusade following the 9/11 attacks. Although the novel frames Christian-Muslim relations in terms of Huntington’s “Clash of Civilizations”, it provides a more complex assessment of the Islam-West relations and directs sharp criticism towards actions and ideas that have created the conditions in which this tension has thrived. The novel refutes the assumption that the Crusades were fought mainly for religious purposes and, in this regard, it modifies Huntington’s assessment of the causes of this clash by showing that the economic and political interests and the desires for expansion were a dominant factor driving the Crusades. Islamic fanaticism is presented to have been largely provoked by the Crusaders’ assaults against Muslims. Field’s novel presents Muslim reactions to the Crusades and thereby, through historical analogy, 9/11 attacks as a response not just to a religious invasion but to economic exploitation and political dominance. The Third Crusade is pictured to have fueled religious fanaticism between the Muslim sects as well as between Muslims and Christians. Despite the fact that the novel is written from a Western perspective in a context that seems to be highly influenced by Huntington’s theory, it promotes a sense of Muslim culture as peaceful and civilized in ways that pull against Huntington’s thesis.