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Indlæser... Sea of Faith: Islam and Christianity in the Medieval Mediterranean Worldaf Stephen O'Shea
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Bliv medlem af LibraryThing for at finde ud af, om du vil kunne lide denne bog. Der er ingen diskussionstråde på Snak om denne bog. This book should not be the first book read on the subject, but a reader well grounded in religeon and history of the period will find this book well written and well documented history of Christianity and Islam from the first contact through the battle for Malta. I believe Mr. O'Shea erred by confining the narrative to the Mediterranean basin and neglected the Balkans and wars with the Habsburgs of Austria. I believe the author understates dhimmitude as well as the general aggressive nature of Islam. Follow the life of Maimonides's from Spain, across North Africa to Cairo to get a sense the lives of infidels under ever changing Islamic rulers. A clever idea but ultimately flawed. The concept is to portray the interplay and mutual benefits that Islam and Christianity brought to each other through the mechanism of the Mediterranean Sea. He focus on select events and battles, but even these are not well detailed. In my opinion, however, the division of the middle sea by the introduction of Islam was divisive, disruptive of trade, and horribly costly in terms of lives. O'Shea glosses over these more fundamental trends in order to attempt to develop a feel-good history of Christian - Islam symbiosis. ingen anmeldelser | tilføj en anmeldelse
The shared history of Christianity and Islam began, shortly after Islam emerged in the seventh century A.D., with a question: Who would inherit the world of the Mediterranean? Sprung from the same Abrahamic source, the two faiths played out what historian O'Shea calls "sibling rivalry writ very large." Their clashes on the battlefield were balanced by long periods of coexistence and mutual enrichment, and by the end of the sixteenth century the religious boundaries of the modern world were drawn. O'Shea chronicles the meetings of minds and the collisions of armies that marked 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 recounts seven pivotal battles between the forces of Christianity and Islam that shaped the Mediterranean world.--From publisher description. No library descriptions found. |
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O'Shea’s research, witnessed by his impressive notes and bibliography, is impressive. As his vocabulary, as witnessed by how many times I had to look up the adjectives he uses in the Oxford English Dictionary. ( )