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Sea of Faith: Islam and Christianity in the Medieval Mediterranean World
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 909
EAN: 9780802715173
Edition: Reprint
ISBN: 0802715176
Label: Walker & Company
Manufacturer: Walker & Company
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 432
Publication Date: May 29, 2007
Publisher: Walker & Company
Release Date: May 29, 2007
Studio: Walker & Company
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Editorial Review:
From the sixth through the sixteenth centuries, the faiths of Islam and Christianity contended for primacy in the Mediterranean world. At times acrimonious, at other times harmonious, the encounter between the two creeds in the Middle Ages provides a backdrop to much of what informs, and misinforms, public opinion on present-day conflicts. Recounting seven major battles encircling the Mediterranean—Yarmuk, Poitiers, Manzikert, Hattin, Las Navas de Tolosa, Constantinople, and Malta—Stephen O’Shea shines vital new light on the distant past while offering invaluable perspective on the two faiths’ ongoing contest for spiritual and political primacy.
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Rating:  - When the Mediterraneum was the center of the world
The Mediterrarranean was the place where two different faiths have used it for the war and for the mutual enrichment .It was a large period of universal history where this sea like the center of world ,with the growing and the death of great peeples and civilizations . Muslim Spain ,
so important in the dark years of western middle age , Genova and Venice
whose enrichment was due to the existence of two different faiths , Byzantium , with a very difficult future between the power ... Read More
Rating:  - a masterpiece of popular history and a meditation on imperial ambition
This book is a labor of love: you can feel the author's fascination with the subject, which he pursued with a passion that is rarely found in academia. The result is a highly readable, informative, and exciting history of the battle for the Meditarranean, between a succession of Christian and Moslem empires. If you want to know about the origins of Islam, the eclectic culture of southern Spain, the Crusades, or the rise and containment of the Ottoman Empire, this is the ideal place ot start.
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Rating: - Both enjoyable and enlightening history
In doing research on my latest historical novel Rashi's Daughters, Book II: Miriam, I consulted dozens of books about how medieval Jews lived and interacted with their Christian and Moslem neighbors. This is one of the best. The facts and history are there, but O'Shea's writing style is never boring or heavy-handed. He makes the whole topic fascinating and the historical players all too human.
Rating: - Snapshots of Christian/Islamic History
In this age where conflict in the Middle East has taken center stage, it is not a surprise to find more and more popular books being published on the historical interaction between Christianity and Islam. What is less common and more pleasant to find is a book that doesn't have an obvious political ax to grind. In Sea of Faith, Stephen O'Shea has written such a book.
Let's be clear: this book is by no means complete in its coverage of the Christian/Islam conflict over the centuries. First, ... Read More
Rating: - A suitable acquisition for both general-interest public libraries and college-level holdings
SEA OF FAITH: ISLAM AND CHRISTIANITY IN THE MEDIEVAL MEDITERRANEAN WORLD is religious history at its best and a top pick for both spirituality and public library collections: it tells of the concurrent rise of Islam and Christianity in the Medieval Mediterranean worlds between the 7th and 7 centuries which shaped modern beliefs, examining the religious battles over who would inherit the Greco-Roman world beyond the crusades. Seven battles served as decision-makers for today's spiritual arena in the world: ... Read More
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