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<p><P>In this immensely readable history that couldn't 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 other's religion from the beginning as fundamentally different and suspect. Eschewing moral judgments and easy generalizations, <i>The Cross and the Crescent</i> allows readers to draw their own conclusions and explore the implications for the present day.</p> <h3>Publishers Weekly</h3> <p>This illuminating study of Christian-Muslim relations in the Middle Ages shows just how intractable the conflict between Islam and the West has always been. Historian Fletcher (Bloodfeud; Barbarian Conversion; etc.), covers the period from the first Muslim conquests in the seventh century to the 16th-century peak of the Ottoman Empire. The story is one of frequent military conflict, but also of trade, diplomacy, technological diffusi

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Author

Fletcher, Richard

Publisher

Penguin (Non-Classics); Penguin Books

Published

2004

Language

EN

ISBN

9780141012070

Category

history

Subjects

Fiction, Religion, Islam