The long, shared history of Christianity and Islam began in the early seventh century AD with a question: Who would inherit the Greco-Roman world of Mediterranean? Sprung from the same source, the two faiths played out over the millennium what historian Stephen O'Shea calls "a sibling rivalry writ very large." Their cataclysmic clashes on the battlefield were balanced by long periods of coexistence and mutual enrichment, and by the end of the sixteenth century the religious boundaries of the modern world were born.
O'Shea chronicles both the meeting of minds and the collisions of armies that marked the interaction of Cross and Crescent in the Middle Ages-the better to understand their apparently intractable conflict today.
"Stephen O'Shea writes books in which he becomes part of the places where his history happened. His eye and his acute sense of place have produced great writing. Sea of Faith is beguiling even when the power of the writing sometimes overwhelms the subject. Others have journeyed through this past, and some of the same places. But O'Shea does it better, and more memorably." -- Globe and Mail"In this elegant, fast-paced, and judicious cultural and religious history, journalist O'Shea...provides a remarkable glimpse into the origins of the conflicts between Christians and Muslims as well as their once peaceful coexistence." -- Publishers Weekl
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- Includes bibliographical references (p. [385]-394) and index
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Table of Contents
- CONTENTS 9
- N OT E S O N U S AG E 11
- I N T RO D U C T I O N 15
- Mezquita and Ayasofya 15
- YA R M U K 6 3 6 33
- The rise of Islam the fall of Christian Syria and Palestine 33
- P O I T I E R S 7 3 2 62
- A century of Arab conquest collision in Constantinople North Africa Spain and Gaul 62
- C Ó R D O B A 92
- A golden age of coexistence the mare nostrum as a Muslim lake 7501030 92
- M A N Z I K E RT 1 0 7 1 116
- The fall of Christian Anatolia the rise of the Normans and the Turks the Great Schism 116
- PA L E R M O A N D TO L E D O 144
- Intellectual and cultural convivencia in the era of the Crusades Sicily Castile and the storming of Jerusalem eleventh and twelfth centuries 144
- H AT T I N 1 1 8 7 172
- Jihad and Crusade the doom of Outremer 172
- LA S NAVA S D E TO LO S A 1 2 1 2 219
- The deathblow to al-Andalus 219
- T H E S E A O F FA I T H 245
- Missionaries merchants and monarchs a convivencia of contradictions the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries the rise of the Ottomans 245
- C O N S TA N T I N O P L E 1 4 5 3 A N D KO S TA N T I N I Y Y E 267
- The fall of the new Rome the rise of the new convivencia 267
- M A LTA 1 5 6 5 300
- The failure of the Ottomans the end of the medieval sea of faith 300
- E P I LO G U E 325
- G LO S S A RY 329
- P E O P L E O F T H E S E A O F FA I T H 333
- S E L E C T T I M E L I N E 341
- N OT E S 345
- B I B L I O G R A P H Y 399
- AC K N OW L E D G M E N T S 409
- INDEX 413
- A N OT E O N T H E AU T H O R 427
