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The Meeting of Civilizations: Muslim, Christian & Jewish
Moshe Ma´oz
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Hardback. The horrific acts of anti-Western and anti-Jewish terrorism carried out by Muslim fanatics during the last decades have been labelled by politicians, religious leaders and scholars as a 'Clash of Civilizations'. This book set out to explain, these acts that cannot be considered an Islamic onslaught on Judeo-Christian Civilisation. Editor(s): Ma'oz, Moshe. Num Pages: 264 pages. BIC Classification: HRAF; HRC; HRH; HRJ. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 236 x 162 x 21. Weight in Grams: 534.
The horrific acts of anti-Western and anti-Jewish terrorism carried out by Muslim fanatics during the last decades have been labelled by politicians, religious leaders and scholars as a "Clash of Civilizations". However, as the contributors to this book set out to explain, these acts cannot be considered an Islamic onslaught on Judeo-Christian Civilisation. While the hostile ideas, words and deeds perpetrated by individual supporters among the three monotheistic civilisations cannot be ignored, history has demonstrated a more positive, constructive, albeit complex, relationship among Muslim, Christians and Jews during medieval and modern times. For long periods of time they shared divine ... Read more
The horrific acts of anti-Western and anti-Jewish terrorism carried out by Muslim fanatics during the last decades have been labelled by politicians, religious leaders and scholars as a "Clash of Civilizations". However, as the contributors to this book set out to explain, these acts cannot be considered an Islamic onslaught on Judeo-Christian Civilisation. While the hostile ideas, words and deeds perpetrated by individual supporters among the three monotheistic civilisations cannot be ignored, history has demonstrated a more positive, constructive, albeit complex, relationship among Muslim, Christians and Jews during medieval and modern times. For long periods of time they shared divine ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Liverpool University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
264
Condition
New
Number of Pages
264
Place of Publication
Liverpool, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781845192877
SKU
V9781845192877
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About Moshe Ma´oz
Moshe Maoz, Prof. Emeritus, Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, has been a Visiting Fellow at many universities and research centres, including Harvard, Oxford, Columbia, NYU, and Beijing. He is the author of 20 books and 80 academic articles on the history and politics of Islam, Muslim-Jewish and Arab-Israeli relations. He served as advisor to Israeli PMs ... Read more
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