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by Maxime Rodinson (Author), Roger Veinus (Translator) "Western Christendom perceived the Muslim world as a menace long before it began to be seen as a real problem..." (more)
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“Rodinson’s serious work is an analytical history of Europe’s varying attitudes, positive and negative, towards Islam and the Middle East...deserves reading.”—The Economist

“Sure to become a favorite of American scholars of the Middle East. It is short, succinct, erudite, and greatly reassuring.”—Richard W. Bulliet
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“Rodinson’s serious work is an analytical history of Europe’s varying attitudes, positive and negative, towards Islam and the Middle East...deserves reading.”—The Economist

“Sure to become a favorite of American scholars of the Middle East. It is short, succinct, erudite, and greatly reassuring.”—Richard W. Bulliet


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Muslim East, Middle Ages, Ottoman Empire, Middle East, Holy Land, Third World, Christian Europe, Peter the Venerable, Louis Massignon, Silvestre de Sacy, Soviet Union, United States
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