Cross and the Crescent Christianity and Islam from Muhammad to the Reformation

Name: Cross and the Crescent Christianity and Islam from Muhammad to the Reformation
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ISBN: 9780670032716

ISBN-10: 0670032719

ISBN-13: 9780670032716

Edition: 2004

Authors: Richard Fletcher

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Richard Fletcher is one of todays most renowned medieval historians. In his latest book, he offers a brilliant survey of the relationship between the Islamic and Christian worlds from the seventh to the sixteenth centuries. He shows how, despite long periods of coexistence and overlap, religious misunderstanding between the peoples of the book has been present since their earliest encounters. He argues that though there were fruitful 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 actual religion of the other. Christians portrayed Muslims as bloodthirsty…

Book details

List price: $22.95
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
Publication date: 1/26/2004
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 208
Size: 5.75" wide x 8.25" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 0.748
Language: English



List of Maps


Preface



Ishmael's Children



An Elephant for Charlemagne



Crossing Frontiers



Commerce, Coexistence and Scholarship



Sieving the Koran



Epilogue


Chronology


Further Reading


Notes


Index