Islam and the West - A Dissonant Harmony of Civilisations

Casual assessments of an ideological gulf between Islam and the West of the kind that set in at the start of the war on terror are debunked in Walker's history of Islam and the West as united in their values of toleration.

A propos de l'auteur

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.

Résumé

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

Détails du produit

• Auteurs: Christopher Walker, Christopher J Walker, Christopher J. Walker
• Edition: The History Press Ltd
• Langues: Anglais
• Format d'édition: Livre de poche
• Sortie: 31.12.2020
• EAN: 9780750994149
• ISBN: 978-0-7509-9414-9
• Pages: 320
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 28 mm
• Poids: 358 g
• Catégories: Littérature spécialisée > Histoire > Autres; Sciences humaines, art, musique > Religion, théologie > Autres religions; Sciences sociales, droit, économie > Sciences politiques