The Church in the Shadow of the Mosque: Christians and Muslims in the World of Islam (Jews, Christians, and Muslims from the Ancient to the Modern World) by Sidney H. Griffith
English | Oct. 26, 2007 | ISBN: 0691130159, 0691146284 | 237 Pages | PDF | 1 MB
English | Oct. 26, 2007 | ISBN: 0691130159, 0691146284 | 237 Pages | PDF | 1 MB
Amid so much twenty-first-century talk of a "Christian-Muslim divide"–and the attendant controversy in some Western countries over policies toward minority Muslim communities–a historical fact has gone unnoticed: for more than four hundred years beginning in the mid-seventh century, some 50 percent of the world's Christians lived and worshipped under Muslim rule. Just who were the Christians in the Arabic-speaking milieu of Mohammed and the Qur'an?