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Moslem-Christian Understanding in Mediaeval Times: A Review Article

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 June 2009

J. Kritzeck
J. Kritzeck
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Princeton University
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During the thirteen centuries of their particular co-existence, Islam and Christianity have shown astonishingly little intellectual curiosity about one another. Through the contacts history has afforded them, contacts marked to be sure by other intellectual achievements, a general state of mutual understanding seldom better than elementary has persisted. Perhaps no Christian any longer believes that Mohammed was a renegade cardinal of the Colonna family and few if any Moslems believe that the Virgin Mary is a Person of the Christian Trinity; but they have continued to accuse one another of polytheism, the very last thing of which either is guilty, down to the present time. Today the Christian living outside the Isamic world who can distinguish Sunnite from Shiite is as rare as the Moslem who can distinguish among Protestant sects (many of them can distinguish Catholic and Orthodox from Protestant Christianity).

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Comparative Studies in Society and History , Volume 4 , Issue 3 , April 1962 , pp. 388 - 401
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Copyright © Society for the Comparative Study of Society and History 1962

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