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Infidels: A History of the Conflict Between Christendom and Islam Paperback – May 3, 2005

by Andrew Wheatcroft (Author)

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Here is the first panoptic history of the long struggle between the Christian West and Islam.

In this dazzlingly written, acutely nuanced account, Andrew Wheatcroft tracks a deep fault line of animosity between civilizations. He begins with a stunning account of the Battle of Lepanto in 1571, then turns to the main zones of conflict: Spain, from which the descendants of the Moors were eventually expelled; the Middle East, where Crusaders and Muslims clashed for years; and the Balkans, where distant memories spurred atrocities even into the twentieth century. Throughout, Wheatcroft delves beneath stereotypes, looking incisively at how images, ideas, language, and technology (from the printing press to the Internet), as well as politics, religion, and conquest, have allowed each side to demonize the other, revive old grievances, and fuel across centuries a seemingly unquenchable enmity. Finally, Wheatcroft tells how this fraught history led to our present maelstrom. We cannot, he argues, come to terms with today’s perplexing animosities without confronting this dark past.

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Praise for Infidels

“Islam is a power that rose, fell, and rose again. All who wish to know the story will need to read Andrew Wheatcroft’s compelling work.”
—JOHN KEEGAN

“Wheatcroft has written an excellent and truly remarkable book. He reminds us of something vital, and too often forgotten: Most of those who were 100 percent sure that the infidels—call them Saracens, Agarenes, Ishmaelites, or Turks—were completely savage and barbarous had never met or seen a Saracen or a Turk in their lives. Somehow they just knew that these aliens should be hated and feared. As a promoter of dialogue between East and West, I agree with Wheatcroft—that unfortunately, now just as much as in the past, it is media outlets and the spreading of false knowledge that promote hostility.”
—HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS PRINCE EL HASSAN BIN TALAL OF JORDAN

“Rattling good reading . . . [Wheatcroft’s] humane conclusion is admirable.”
—FELIPE FERNÁNDEZ-ARMESTO, The Sunday Times (London)

“Gripping, often blood-curdling, history. . . recounted with tremendous literary flair.”
—JOHN ADAMSON, The Sunday Telegraph (London)

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Here is the first panoptic history of the long struggle between the Christian West and Islam.
In this dazzlingly written, acutely nuanced account, Andrew Wheatcroft tracks a deep fault line of animosity between civilizations. He begins with a stunning account of the Battle of Lepanto in 1571, then turns to the main zones of conflict: Spain, from which the descendants of the Moors were eventually expelled; the Middle East, where Crusaders and Muslims clashed for years; and the Balkans, where distant memories spurred atrocities even into the twentieth century. Throughout, Wheatcroft delves beneath stereotypes, looking incisively at how images, ideas, language, and technology (from the printing press to the Internet), as well as politics, religion, and conquest, have allowed each side to demonize the other, revive old grievances, and fuel across centuries a seemingly unquenchable enmity. Finally, Wheatcroft tells how this fraught history led to our present maelstrom. We cannot, he argues, come to terms with today's perplexing animosities without confronting this dark past.

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Paperback: 496 pages
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks (May 3, 2005)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0812972392
ISBN-13: 978-0812972399
Product Dimensions: 5.3 x 1.1 x 8 inches
Shipping Weight: 12.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
Average Customer Review: 27 customer reviews
Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,964,802 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #1248 in Books > History > World > Religious > Islam
- #2425 in Books > Christian Books & Bibles > History > Historical Theology
- #4691 in Books > Religion & Spirituality > Religious Studies > Comparative Religion

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Historical Background

May 10, 2013

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I like the fact that it gives me a background of information to evaluate the current situation and relationships between Christianity and Islam. I can't attest to the interpretation of events, but I do want to know the events that occurred.

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November 19, 2014

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It's a good book, just wish I could pronounce some of the names in the book better.

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Juma V. Mwapachu

A Must Read for Lovers of Religious Harmony

February 18, 2013

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In a world confronted by a paradoxical resilience in the conflict between Islam and Christianity, this book offers an interesting account of the historical contexts of the struggle between these two pre-eminent religions. A powerful source for promoting an inter-faith dialogue that can bridge the gulf that exists and usher in a new culture of human tolerance and solidarity.

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June 17, 2015

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Pretty much a one-sided view.

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November 20, 2012

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So often books are bogged with redundancy and boring stories to fill the pages with content, with this book, it's pure history. Sure, there are a few stories, and some boring, but the history, the in-depth observation of battles and wars was astonishing. This book is a must read for those interested in the topic.

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February 9, 2015

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very good condition

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May I recommend two books to read

August 19, 2016

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If you who do not want to read or have any desire to understand the under lying emotions and hostility of these three religions or of this area of the world ., may I suggest that you read at least read the last chapter to Mr. Wheatcroft"s work. WORDS CAUSES EMOTIONS .EMOTIONS BRING ON FEELINGS,AND FEELINGS BRING ON ACTIONS WHICH MAY IN THESE CASES BRING ON GENERATIONS OF HOSTILITIES Mr. Wheatcroft has shown in this work that we can be control either by the words of others or by our own perceptions .May I recommend two books to read ; A DISEASE OF THE PUBLIC MIND which shows how words and certain actions will bring on dangerous outcome, when it is reinforced AGAIN by events or AGAIN words.What to know a total different cause of the WAR OF NORTHERN AGGRESSION / the WAR FOR SOUTHERN INDEPENDENCY or as BLUE BELLIES refer to it as THE CIVIL WAR or as THE WAR OF SOUTHERN REBELLION.I do not remember the author's name..John Jake's series - NORTH AND SOUTH is very interesting reading on what happens to families over a period of generations that leads to the war and after.

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César González Rouco

Original and confusing

July 19, 2004

Format: Hardcover

Andrew Wheatcroft's Infidels examines the bloody faultline between Islam and the West. The scope of his book is ambitious: he starts with a tremendous account of the battle of Lepanto in 1571, but then he forgoes the chronology. There are different sections on Andalucia, the Middle East, the Balkans and the Otto-man Empire.You get a bit about the romance of Moorish Spain and some exotic tales from the Crusades.

Andrew Wheatcroft is especially good on the key question of mutual perceptions. His knowledge of the Western representations of Islam in art and literature is impressive. Atrocities were mutual, and Wheatcroft wants to tell us why certain events were remembered better than others; he wishes to find out how we know what we know about the past. The tale is just that: one of difference and enmity and is clearly intended as the final word on the cultural history of the clash of civilizations. His attempt to short-circuit the 'maledicta', the words of pure hate at the heart of the relationship between Islam and the West, through a greater understanding of the history of mutual repulsion should be applauded.

All that said I had the impression that he wanted to cover too broad an issue in a new way. Certainly, he warns that his aim is not to explain why things happened that way, but how they happen, but in my opinion the very choice of some facts supposedly to be relevant implicitly asks for some kind of explanation that in this work is never openly developped.The final result is somehow confusing.

(Given that nowadays it is so difficult to get an objective, nuanced opinion on Islam, neither flattering nor biased against it, as a way to try and achieve that, I would suggest to read several good books on the matter, among them, the following: "The Venture of Islam", by Marshall G. S. Hodgson -nowadays a classic included in any bibliography on Islam-; "The Turks in World History" by Carter Vaughn Findley; "Muslims in the West: Redefining the Separation of Church & State" by Sami Awad Aldeeb Abu-Sahlieh; God's Rule : Government and Islam by Patricia Crone and "Understanding Jihad", by David Cook).

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