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The Cross and the Crescent: Christianity and Islam from Muhammad to the Reformation - Couverture rigide

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Fletcher, Richard

 
9780670032716: The Cross and the Crescent: Christianity and Islam from Muhammad to the Reformation
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 0670032719 ISBN 13 : 9780670032716
Editeur : Viking, 2004

Synopsis

Book by Fletcher Richard

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Présentation de l'éditeur

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.

Biographie de l'auteur

Richard Fletcher is one of Britain's most distinguished medieval historians, and for many years taught at the University of York. His previous books include THE QUEST FOR EL CID, which won the Wolfson Award and the Los Angeles Times History Prize; THE CONVERSION OF EUROPE; and BLOODFEUD.

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Éditeur
Viking
Date d'édition
2004
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0670032719
ISBN 13 
9780670032716
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