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The Cross and the Crescent: The Dramatic Story of the Earliest Encounters Between Christians and Muslims

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The Cross and the Crescent: The Dramatic Story of the Earliest Encounters Between Christians and Muslims - Fletcher, Richard
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A short, brilliant account of the relations between Islam and Christianity from Muhammad to the Reformation. Fletcher argues that though there were 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 religion of the other. "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 ...

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The Cross and the Crescent: The Dramatic Story of the Earliest Encounters Between Christians and Muslims 2005, Penguin Adult Hc/Tr

ISBN-13: 9780143034810

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The Cross and the Crescent: The Dramatic Story of the Earliest Encounters Between Christians and Muslims 2004, Penguin Books Ltd, London

ISBN-13: 9780141012070

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