Christians and Muslims on Malta in the Sixteenth to Eighteenth Centuries
Samuel P. Huntington has described the encounter between Christianity and Islam as the ‘clash of civilizations’, and so have Norman Daniel and R.W. Southern. This Manichean vision is the result partly of political and religious rivalry which demonizes ‘the other’. Such an interpretation has been cha...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
| Check availability: | HBZ Gateway |
| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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2015
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| In: |
Studies in church history
Year: 2015, Volume: 51, Pages: 204-215 |
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| Summary: | Samuel P. Huntington has described the encounter between Christianity and Islam as the ‘clash of civilizations’, and so have Norman Daniel and R.W. Southern. This Manichean vision is the result partly of political and religious rivalry which demonizes ‘the other’. Such an interpretation has been challenged by scholars who emphasize a more complex reality and refer to ‘a shared discourse of the Ottoman and European worlds’. |
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| ISSN: | 2059-0644 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Studies in church history
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1017/S0424208400050191 |
