Cross and the Crescent The Dramatic Story of the Earliest Encounters Between Christians and Muslims

Name: Cross and the Crescent The Dramatic Story of the Earliest Encounters Between Christians and Muslims
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ISBN: 9780143034810

ISBN-10: 0143034812

ISBN-13: 9780143034810

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Authors: Richard Fletcher

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In this immensely readable history that couldnt be more timely, award-winning historian Richard Fletcher chronicles the relationship between Islam and Christianity from the time of Muhammad to the Reformation. With lucidity and sound scholarship, Fletcher demonstrates that though there were fruitful trading and cultural interactions between Muslims and Christians during the period when the Arabs controlled most of the Mediterranean world, each group viewed the others religion from the beginning as fundamentally different and suspect. Eschewing moral judgments and easy generalizations, The Cross and the Crescentallows readers to draw their own conclusions and explore the implications for the…

Book details

List price: $15.00
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date: 1/25/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 208
Size: 5.00" wide x 7.75" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.330
Language: English