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The cross and the crescent : the dramatic story of the earliest encounters between christians and muslims Richard Fletcher.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York : Viking, Penguin 2004Description: xviii, 182 p. : maps ; 22 cmISBN:
  • 0670032719
  • 9780670032716
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 261.2/7/09 22
LOC classification:
  • BP172 .F59 2004
Other classification:
  • 11.07
Online resources:
Contents:
1. Ishmael's Children -- 2. An Elephant for Charlemagne -- 3. Crossing Frontiers -- 4. Commerce, Coexistence and Scholarship -- 5. Sieving the Koran -- 6. Epilogue.
Review: "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.
Item type: Books
Holdings
Current library Collection Call number Vol info Status Date due Barcode
Judith Thomas Library General Stacks BKS BP 172 .F59 2004 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) AUA005737 Available AUA005737

Includes bibliographical references (p. 166-174) and index.

1. Ishmael's Children -- 2. An Elephant for Charlemagne -- 3. Crossing Frontiers -- 4. Commerce, Coexistence and Scholarship -- 5. Sieving the Koran -- 6. Epilogue.

"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.