The cross and the crescent : Christianity and Islam from Muhammad to the Reformation

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The cross and the crescent : Christianity and Islam from Muhammad to the Reformation

Title remainder

Christianity and Islam from Muhammad to the Reformation

Statement of responsibility

Richard Fletcher

Creator

• Fletcher, R. A., (Richard A)
• Fletcher, R. A., (Richard A.)

Subject

• Christianity and other religions -- Islam | History
• Islam -- Relations | Christianity | History

Language

eng

Summary

"Richard Fletcher shows how, despite long periods of co-existence 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 interaction between Islam and Christianity during the period when Arabs controlled most of the Mediterranean world, each viewed the other's religion as fundamentally different. Christians portrayed Moslems as bloodthirsty pagans and Muhammad as a false prophet, while Islam saw Christianity as a jumble of sects and conflicting stories. In Fletcher's words: '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.'"--BOOK JACKET

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BDS

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index present

Literary form

non fiction

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bibliography