The Cross and the Crescent
Bernard Hamilton scrutinises two pertinent titles on the relationship between Christianity and Islam throughout the ages.
- The Cross and the Crescent: Christianity and Islam from Muhammad to the Reformation by Richard Fletcher
Allen Lane. The Penguin Press. xvi + 183 pp. £14.99.
ISBN 0-713-99686-2
HISTORY TODAY BOOKSHOP PRICE £12.99 - Infidels: The Conflict between Christendom and Islam 638-2002 by Andrew Wheatcroft
Viking. xxxiv + 443 pp. £20.
ISBN 0-670-86942-2
HISTORY TODAY BOOKSHOP PRICE £17
'For there is nothing which Almighty God, who wishes that all men should be saved and that no man should perish, more approves in our conduct than that a man should first love God and then his fellow men … Most certainly you and we ought to love each other in this way more than other races of men, because we believe and confess one God, albeit in different ways, whom each day we praise and reverence as the creator of all ages and the governor of this world.’
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