Faith and Sword - Alan G. Jamieson

A Short History of Christian-Muslim Conflict, Second Expanded Edition

KORTE INHOUD

Faith and Sword gives a wide-ranging and detailed survey of what has arguably been the longest conflict in human history - a conflict that continues, in a new form, to this day. THe overtly religious Christian-Muslim struggle lasted for nearly thirteen centuries, and for most of that period the Muslims were in the ascendant. THe Christians eventually halted the tide of Arab conquest, but their counterstroke in the Crusades ended in failure and the Muslim threat was renewed by the Ottoman Turks. ONly after 1600 did Christians finally begin to gain the upper hand, with the fall of the Ottoman Empire after the First World War seeming to mark the final Christian victory. BEtween 1918 and today, however, the Christian-Muslim conflict continued, albeit in different guises: Christendom became the largely secularized West, while religious fundamentalism revived on the Muslim side and the usa became its principal target. In this revised paperback edition Alan G. JAmieson brings the story right up to date through all i... Lees verder...

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2016Uitgever: Reaktion Books, Limited320 paginasTaal: EngelsISBN-10: 1780236727ISBN-13: 9781780236728

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