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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 21 March 2016
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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