One-note history: religion is just one of many factors that lead humankind to war.(Faith and the Sword: A Short History of Christian-Muslim Conflict)(Book review)
From: Literary Review of Canada
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Date: 5/1/2007
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Author: Abdullah, Thabit A.J.
Faith and the Sword: A Short History of Christian-Muslim Conflict Alan G. Jamieson Reaktion Books 256 pages, hardcover ISBN 9781861892720
With the depressing post-9/11 climate of extremist and xenophobic posturing currently dominating international affairs, any attempt to deal with the history of Muslim-Christian relations must surely be a hazardous undertaking. Prior efforts have tended to vacillate between finding some irreconcilable unchanging "essence" in either or both ...
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