Infidels: A History of the Conflict Between Christendom and Islam - Softcover

Praise for Infidels "Islam is a power that rose, fell, and rose again. All who wish to know the story will need to read Andrew Wheatcroft's compelling work." --JOHN KEEGAN "Wheatcroft has written an excellent and truly remarkable book. He reminds us of something vital, and too often forgotten: Most of those who were 100 percent sure that the infidels--call them Saracens, Agarenes, Ishmaelites, or Turks--were completely savage and barbarous had never met or seen a Saracen or a Turk in their lives. Somehow they just knew that these aliens should be hated and feared. As a promoter of dialogue between East and West, I agree with Wheatcroft--that unfortunately, now just as much as in the past, it is media outlets and the spreading of false knowledge that promote hostility." --HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS PRINCE EL HASSAN BIN TALAL OF JORDAN "Rattling good reading . . . [Wheatcroft's] humane conclusion is admirable." --FELIPE FERN NDEZ-ARMESTO, The Sunday Times (London) "Gripping, often blood-curdling, history. . . recounted with tremendous literary flair." --JOHN ADAMSON, The Sunday Telegraph (London)