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Sea of Faith : Islam and Christianity in the Medieval Mediterranean World by Stephen O'Shea (2006, Hardcover)

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The long, shared history of Christianity and Islam began, shortly after Islam emerged in the early seventh century A.D., with a question: Who would inherit the Greco-Roman world of the Mediterranean? Sprung from the same source-- Abraham and the Revelation given to the Jews-- the two faiths played out over the course of the next millennium what historian Stephen O' Shea calls " a sibling rivalry writ very large." Their cataclysmic clashes on the battlefield were balanced by long periods of co-existence and mutual enrichment, and by the end of the sixteenth century the religious boundaries of the modern world were drawn. In "Sea"" of ""Faith," O' Shea chronicles both the meeting of minds and the collisions of armies that marked the interaction of Cross and Crescent in the Middle Ages-- the better to understand their apparently intractable conflict today. For all the great and everlasting moments of cultural interchange and tolerance-- in Cordoba, Palermo, Constantinople-- the ultimate " geography of belief " was decided on the battlefield. O' Shea vividly recounts seven pivotal battles between the forces of Christianity and Islam that shaped the Mediterranean world-- from the loss of the Christian Middle East to the Muslims at Yarmuk (Turkey) in 636 to the stemming of the seemingly unstoppable Ottoman tide at Malta in 1565. In between, the battles raged round the Mediterranean, from Poitiers in France and Hattin in the Holy Land during the height of the Crusades, to the famed contest for Constantinople in 1453 that signaled the end of Byzantium. As much as the armies were motivated by belief, their exploits wereinspired by leaders such as Charles Martel, Saladin, and Mehmet II, whose stirring feats were sometimes accompanied by unexpected changes of heart.

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Publisher
Walker & Company
ISBN-10
0802714986
ISBN-13
9780802714985
eBay Product ID (ePID)
50588843

Product Key Features

Book Title
Sea of Faith : Islam and Christianity in the Medieval Mediterranean World
Author
Stephen O'shea
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Islam / History, Christianity / History, Military / General, Europe / General, Customs & Traditions, Middle East / General, Europe / Medieval
Publication Year
2006
Genre
Religion, History, Social Science
Number of Pages
320 Pages

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Item Length
9.4in
Item Height
1.4in
Item Width
6.4in
Item Weight
26.6 Oz

Additional Product Features

Lc Classification Number
De84.O84 2006
Copyright Date
2006
Target Audience
Trade
Lccn
2005-033290
Dewey Decimal
909/.09822
Dewey Edition
22
Illustrated
Yes

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by a19ucla844zabSep 09, 2006
Very readable and enlightening
This book was not full of dense information. It read like a story with vivid details and interesting anecdotes which shed light on the subject of Christian and Muslim relations in medieval Mediterranean history. I am a history major and instructor and found O'Shea's writing to be gripping, insightful, and very applicable to our present era. You are in for a very entertaining and thought provoking read!
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Read a review in The Christian Science Monitor and the it sounded interesting. Like history and felt it would inform me about the background to the present problems we are having with the Moslem world. Only have read the opening chapter and look forward to reading more.

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