{"product_id":"the-cross-and-the-crescent-isbn-9780143034810","title":"The Cross and the Crescent","description":"In this immensely readable history that couldn’t be more timely, award-winning historian Richard Fletcher chronicles the relationship between Islam and Christianity from the time of Muhammad to the Reformation. With lucidity and sound scholarship, Fletcher demonstrates that though there were fruitful trading and cultural interactions between Muslims and Christians during the period when the Arabs controlled most of the Mediterranean world, each group viewed the other’s religion from the beginning as fundamentally different and suspect. Eschewing moral judgments and easy generalizations, \u003cb\u003eThe Cross and the Crescent\u003c\/b\u003e allows readers to draw their own conclusions and explore the implications for the present day.List of Maps\u003cbr\u003e  Preface\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e  1. Ishmael's Children 1\u003cbr\u003e 2. An Elephant for Charlemagne 30\u003cbr\u003e 3. Crossing Frontiers 67\u003cbr\u003e 4. Commerce, Coexistence and Scholarship 100\u003cbr\u003e 5. Sieving the Koran 131\u003cbr\u003e 6. Epilogue 157\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Chronology 162\u003cbr\u003e Further Reading 166\u003cbr\u003e Notes 170\u003cbr\u003e Index 175\u003c\/p\u003e\"A dazzling sprint past the turf wars of Rome and Constantinople, Sunnis and Shi’ites... Genghis Khan and Prester John.\" —\u003cb\u003eJohn Leonard\u003c\/b\u003e, \u003cb\u003eHarper’s\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eRichard Fletcher\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of seven books, including \u003ci\u003eThe Quest for El Cid\u003c\/i\u003e, winner of the Wolfson Award and the Los Angeles Times History Prize. Recently retired from the University of York, where he was a professor of history, he lives in England.","brand":"Penguin Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46304804438245,"sku":"NP9780143034810","price":24.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780143034810.jpg?v=1767738878","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/the-cross-and-the-crescent-isbn-9780143034810","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}