Book description
Conventional wisdom maintains that the differences between Islam and Christianity are irreconcilable. Pre-eminent Middle East scholar Richard W. Bulliet disagrees, and in this fresh, provocative book he looks beneath the rhetoric of hatred and misunderstanding to challenge prevailing-and misleading-views of Islamic history and a "clash of civilizations." These sibling societies…
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1 author picked The Case for Islamo-Christian Civilization as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
What struck me about this book is the idea that while we can talk about ‘Judeo-Christian culture’ and we understand all the different manifestations of Christianity as essentially the same thing, even after centuries of bitter conflict, the idea of an Islamo-Christian civilisation is discordant to our thinking.
The author asks why and provides a wealth of evidence that calls for a fundamental restructuring of Western thinking about relations with Islam.
It’s provocative stuff but a necessary correction to the ‘clash of civilisations’ view of history. It certainly made me think again.
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