Christians, Muslims, and Jews in the Age of Discovery by Ber
The relations of Christians, Jews, and Muslims around the Mediterranean were tumultuous for centuries, and still have consequences (in the Balkans, for instance) that we need to understand if we are to cope with politics and conflict today. In the book Cultures in Conflict. Christians, Muslims, and Jews in the Age of Discovery by Bernard Lewis, those relations are examined to reveal the relative position of each and the eventual decline of one to give rise to another. Lewis first examines the way Christians and Muslims looked at one another. Despite their mutual hostility, they understood each other's views rather well. Medieval Christians largely dismissed Muslim theology as post-Gospel heresy; but the Muslims themselves were regarded as serious social and military challengers. By contrast, a still primitive Christendom looked to sophisticated Muslims "rather as Central Asia or Africa appeared to Victorian Englishmen? (pp. 13). However, despite their knowledge of one another (or perhaps because of it), the Christian world was imbedded in a deep conflict with the Islamic and Jewish worlds. The Christian conflict with the Islamic world was, according to Lewis, the result of a rivalry based on three motives: faith, greed, a
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