In the name of God : the role of religion in the modern world, a history of Judeo-Christian and Islamic tolerance
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Published
New York : Pegasus Books, 2020.
Format
Book
Edition
First Pegasus books hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
xvi, 462 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color), portraits (some color) ; 24 cm
Status
Southside - Adult
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Published
New York : Pegasus Books, 2020.
Edition
First Pegasus books hardcover edition.
Language
English
Notes
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 430-443) and index.
Description
In this groundbreaking book, Selina O'Grady examines how and why the post-Christian and the Islamic worlds came to be as tolerant or intolerant as they are. She asks whether tolerance can be expected to heal today's festering wound between these two worlds, or whether something deeper than tolerance is needed. Told through contemporary chronicles, stories and poems, Selina O'Grady takes the reader through the intertwined histories of the Muslim, Christian and Jewish persecutors and persecuted. From Umar, the seventh century Islamic caliph who laid down the rules for the treatment of religious minorities in what was becoming the greatest empire the world has ever known, to Magna Carta John who seriously considered converting to Islam; and from al-Wahhab, whose own brother thought he was illiterate and fanatical, but who created the religious-military alliance with the house of Saud that still survives today, to Europe's bloody Thirty Years war that wearied Europe of murderous inter-Christian violence but probably killed God in the process. This book is an essential guide to understanding Islam and the West today and the role of religion in the modern world.
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