Islam and the West - Christopher J Walker

Islam and the West

A Dissonant Harmony of Civilisations
Buch | Softcover
320 Seiten
2020 | 2nd edition
The History Press Ltd (Verlag)
978-0-7509-9414-9 (ISBN)
16,20 inkl. MwSt
The widely held belief that a deep historical and ideological gulf exists between Islam and the West is turned on its head in this thought-provoking book
We have rapidly grown used to the idea, particularly since the declaration of a worldwide war on terrorism, that between Islam and the West there exists a deep historical and ideological gulf. Christopher J. Walker turns such accepted views on their head and paints instead a picture of two belief systems that have a long history of toleration and mutual influence. Indeed, Islam has given a great deal to civilisation: essentially modern notions of free enquiry, rational experimentation, rational experimentation and the independence of science from religious authority are legacies of the Islamic world. Islam and the West is a thought-provoking study covering some of the cardinal encounters between Islamic and Western countries.

CHRISTOPHER J. WALKER worked in Southeby's department of historical and literary manuscripts before winning a Winston Churchill Travelling Fellowship to write a history of modern Armenia. He has also written 'Visions of Ararat' and a 'Life of Oliver Baldwin', the son of a Conservative Prime Minister who became a labour MP.

Erscheinungsdatum
Verlagsort Stroud
Sprache englisch
Maße 129 x 198 mm
Themenwelt Geschichte Teilgebiete der Geschichte Kulturgeschichte
Geschichte Teilgebiete der Geschichte Religionsgeschichte
Geisteswissenschaften Religion / Theologie Islam
ISBN-10 0-7509-9414-2 / 0750994142
ISBN-13 978-0-7509-9414-9 / 9780750994149
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