... from Judaism: Islamic and Christian Fanaticism Christos C. Evangeliou It is my purpose in this essay to examine the textual roots of the religious fanaticism found in the Christian and Muslim holy books and to draw from them political implications for the post...

.... This essay focuses on the three Abrahamic religions: Christianity, Islam, and Shukri and Hossain: Strategic Shifts in Discourse by the AKP  7 Judaism. While the three religions have varying degrees of laws concerning state and governance, the essay argues that Islam is the most...

... of five centuries of Turkish-­Greek hatred with a new myth of cooperation and Christian-­Islamic syncretism. Karagoz has become “Ottoman” in the sense of being part of a shared regional culture, while Sinan’s Armenian ancestry serves as evidence of Ottoman pluralism. Remaining attentive...

.... Kumaraswamy All major religions classify people into two distinct categories: believers and nonbelievers. In the name of universality, they normally give a distinct, often pejorative nomenclature to the latter; goyim in Judaism, infidel in Christianity and Islam, and melacha in Hinduism. In each...

... of the Crusades and Crusaders, as seen and recorded by the Muslim scholars of that period. This essay explores and surveys the existing literature on the Muslim responses to the Crusades. Muslim scholars Middle Ages Christianity and Islam imperialism Copyright 2017 by Mediterranean Affairs, Inc. 2017...

... this historical study. It provokes complex and incommodious questions about contemporary Islam and Europe through the tumultuous upheavals and injustices of the past. The story begins with the Christian conquest of Granada and a Muslim rebellion in 1500 that provoked a response from the ruling...

... Christianity and a single-minded Islam — and that this has led to many of the problems of the world today. Evangeliou suggests in several places that a return to the rational and flexible Hellenic approach could be a positive factor in creating a more peaceful and positive system of relations among...

..., and religion from the time of Homer to the present. A central point of many of the chap- ters is that the rational, polytheistic philosophy of the ancient Greeks was lost with the ascendancy of two dogmatic religions — messianic Christianity and a single-minded Islam — and that this has led to many...

...- ably lucid. There is no escaping the present through this historical study. It provokes complex and incommodious questions about contemporary Islam and Europe through the tumultuous upheavals and injustices of the past. The story begins with the Christian conquest of Granada and a Muslim...

... contemporary Islam and Europe through the tumultuous upheavals and injustices of the past. The story begins with the Christian conquest of Granada and a Muslim rebellion in 1500 that provoked a response from the ruling Christian authorities, leading to conver- sions of the Muslim population...

... (hardcover). Reviewed by Justine Williams. In contemporary discourse on the Mediterranean, relations between the major mono- theistic religions, particularly between Islam and Christianity, are often painted as a “clash of civilizations,” leading us to think of members of different ethnoreligious com...

... (hardcover). Reviewed by Justine Williams. In contemporary discourse on the Mediterranean, relations between the major mono- theistic religions, particularly between Islam and Christianity, are often painted as a “clash of civilizations,” leading us to think of members of different ethnoreligious com...

... (hardcover). Reviewed by Justine Williams. In contemporary discourse on the Mediterranean, relations between the major mono- theistic religions, particularly between Islam and Christianity, are often painted as a “clash of civilizations,” leading us to think of members of different ethnoreligious com...

... to the economic pressures created by the upheaval of the war and the social pressures created by this demographic shake-up, Christians, too, were squeezed out of Israel. Within Arab societies throughout the Middle East, Sennott states, Christians were “squeezed further by the upsurge in Islamic...

... states, Christians were “squeezed further by the upsurge in Islamic fundamentalism,” which changed both the social and the political landscape of the Arab world during the past twenty years. As Arabs they were mistrusted by the Israelis—and as Christians, by the overwhelmingly Muslim Palestinians...

... to the economic pressures created by the upheaval of the war and the social pressures created by this demographic shake-up, Christians, too, were squeezed out of Israel. Within Arab societies throughout the Middle East, Sennott states, Christians were “squeezed further by the upsurge in Islamic...

... of a head- scarf-wearing girl carrying a pig’s head and turning her face to the EU logo.11 Clearly, a Turkey-versus-Europe dichotomy expressed with a discourse of Islam-versus-Christianity runs in the background of Kemalist nationalist imagination of the West. The Kemalists criticize...

... Quarterly: Spring 2008 perspectives on the liberalization of Islam. What the United States seems to be saying is that Islam should be modified to resemble Christianity, and that it should adopt a number of perspectives on government and politics that are currently part of the Western tradition...

.... Mediterranean Quarterly 19:1 Copyright 2008 by Mediterranean Affairs, Inc. 98  Mediterranean Quarterly: Winter 2008 cide at the hands of the Christians from the fourth to the sixth centuries CE. At a time of religious conflict between Christianity and Islam, this book highlights...

... Affairs, Inc. 98  Mediterranean Quarterly: Winter 2008 cide at the hands of the Christians from the fourth to the sixth centuries CE. At a time of religious conflict between Christianity and Islam, this book highlights the intolerant nature of monotheism, the hidden history that plunged the West...