The Cross and the Crescent : The Dramatic Story of the Earliest Encounters Between Christians and Muslims EPUB
by Richard Fletcher
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A short, brilliant account of the relations between Islam and Christianity from Muhammad to the Reformation.
Fletcher argues that though there were trading and cultural interactions between Islam and Christianity during the period when Arabs controlled most of the Mediterranean world, neither side was remotely interested in the religion of the other. "Christian and Moslem lived side by side in a state of mutual religious aversion.
Given these circumstances, if religious passions were to be stirred up, confrontation would probably be violent." He shows how religious misunderstanding and antagonism between "the peoples of the book" has been present since their earliest encounters.
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- Pages:208 pages
- Publisher:Penguin Books Ltd
- Publication Date:04/03/2004
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- ISBN:9780141939292
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Download - Immediately Available
- Format:EPUB
- Pages:208 pages
- Publisher:Penguin Books Ltd
- Publication Date:04/03/2004
- Category:
- ISBN:9780141939292