Cultures in conflict : Christians, Muslims, and Jews in the age of discovery / Bernard Lewis.
Cultures in conflict : Christians, Muslims, and Jews in the age of discovery / Bernard Lewis.
Cultures in conflict : Christians, Muslims, and Jews in the age of discovery / Bernard Lewis.
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New York : Oxford University Press, 1995.
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1995.
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N940.21/29
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101 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
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New York : Oxford University Press, 1995.
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New York (State)
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1995.
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Lewis also reflects on changing qualities in European and Islamic cultures and the place of the Jews in both. The Jews who fled Spain found a receptive environment in Turkey; but the balance of tolerance and openness to innovation steadily shifted west. The voyages of discovery were themselves a part of the Christian-Muslim conflict, he writes, an...
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Cultures in conflict : Christians, Muslims, and Jews in the age of discovery / Bernard Lewis.
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Based on the Merle Curti lectures delivered at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, May 1993.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [83]-94) and index.
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N940.21/29
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0195090268 (acid-free paper) :
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940.21
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991022850599702626
