The cross and the crescent :
Fletcher, R. A.
The cross and the crescent : the dramatic story of the earliest encounters between christians and muslims Richard Fletcher. - New York : Viking, Penguin 2004 - xviii, 182 p. : maps ; 22 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 166-174) and index.
Ishmael's Children -- An Elephant for Charlemagne -- Crossing Frontiers -- Commerce, Coexistence and Scholarship -- Sieving the Koran -- Epilogue. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6.
"Richard Fletcher shows how, despite the long coexistence and overlap of Islam and Christianity, 'the peoples of the book' have held religious misunderstandings since their earliest encounters. He explains that, though there were fruitful trading and cultural interactions between Muslims and Christians during the period when Arabs controlled most of the Mediterranean world, each group viewed the other's religion as fundamentally different: Christians portrayed Muslims as bloodthirsty pagans and Muhammad as a false prophet, while Muslims saw Christianity as a jumble of sects and conflicting stories."--BOOK JACKET.
0670032719 9780670032716
2003060975
Islam--Relations--Christianity.
Christianity and other religions--Islam.
Islam.
Christendom.
BP172 / .F59 2004
261.2/7/09
The cross and the crescent : the dramatic story of the earliest encounters between christians and muslims Richard Fletcher. - New York : Viking, Penguin 2004 - xviii, 182 p. : maps ; 22 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 166-174) and index.
Ishmael's Children -- An Elephant for Charlemagne -- Crossing Frontiers -- Commerce, Coexistence and Scholarship -- Sieving the Koran -- Epilogue. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6.
"Richard Fletcher shows how, despite the long coexistence and overlap of Islam and Christianity, 'the peoples of the book' have held religious misunderstandings since their earliest encounters. He explains that, though there were fruitful trading and cultural interactions between Muslims and Christians during the period when Arabs controlled most of the Mediterranean world, each group viewed the other's religion as fundamentally different: Christians portrayed Muslims as bloodthirsty pagans and Muhammad as a false prophet, while Muslims saw Christianity as a jumble of sects and conflicting stories."--BOOK JACKET.
0670032719 9780670032716
2003060975
Islam--Relations--Christianity.
Christianity and other religions--Islam.
Islam.
Christendom.
BP172 / .F59 2004
261.2/7/09