ENGLISH

The Cross and the Crescent

By Richard Fletcher

Book information

Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Year
2003
ISBN
9780141939292, 9780141012070
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
4 MB (3708590 bytes)
Pages
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Time added
2025-04-19 05:31:47

Description

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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