TY  - BOOK
AU  - Fletcher,R.A.
TI  - The cross and the crescent: the dramatic story of the earliest encounters between christians and muslims
SN  - 0670032719
AV  - BP172 .F59 2004
U1  - 261.2/7/09 22
PY  - 2004///
CY  - New York
PB  - Viking, Penguin
KW  - Islam
KW  - Relations
KW  - Christianity
KW  - Christianity and other religions
KW  - gtt
KW  - Christendom
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. 166-174) and index; 1; Ishmael's Children --; 2; An Elephant for Charlemagne --; 3; Crossing Frontiers --; 4; Commerce, Coexistence and Scholarship --; 5; Sieving the Koran --; 6; Epilogue
N2  - "Richard Fletcher shows how, despite the long coexistence and overlap of Islam and Christianity, 'the peoples of the book' have held religious misunderstandings since their earliest encounters. He explains that, though there were fruitful trading and cultural interactions between Muslims and Christians during the period when Arabs controlled most of the Mediterranean world, each group viewed the other's religion as fundamentally different: Christians portrayed Muslims as bloodthirsty pagans and Muhammad as a false prophet, while Muslims saw Christianity as a jumble of sects and conflicting stories."--BOOK JACKET
UR  - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0719/2003060975-b.html
UR  - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0719/2003060975-d.html
ER  -