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The Infidels: The Conflict Between Christendom and Islam, 638-2002 [Illustrated] (Hardcover)

by Andrew Wheatcroft (Author)
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  • Hardcover: 443 pages
  • Publisher: Viking; illustrated edition edition (1 May 2003)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0670869422
  • ISBN-13: 978-0670869428
  • Average Customer Review: 3.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 764,708 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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"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 FERNANDEZ-ARMESTO, "The "Sunday Times (London)
"Gripping, often blood-curdling, history. . . recounted with tremendous literary flair."
--JOHN ADAMSON, "The "Sunday Telegraph (London)

"From the Hardcover edition.



Sunday Herald. Iain MacWhirter. 27 April 2003.

'Infidels is essential reading for anyone interested in what is happening in the new world order.'
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11 of 12 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars Original and confusing, 10 Jul 2003
By César González Rouco (Madrid, Madrid Spain) - See all my reviews
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Andrew Wheatcroft's Infidels examines the bloody faultline between Islam and the West. The scope of his book is ambitious: he starts with a tremendous account of the battle of Lepanto in 1571, but then he forgoes the chronology. There are different sections on Andalucia, the Middle East, the Balkans and the Otto-man Empire.You get a bit about the romance of Moorish Spain and some exotic tales from the Crusades.

Andrew Wheatcroft is especially good on the key question of mutual perceptions. His knowledge of the Western representations of Islam in art and literature is impressive. Atrocities were mutual, and Wheatcroft wants to tell us why certain events were remembered better than others; he wishes to find out how we know what we know about the past. The tale is just that: one of difference and enmity and is clearly intended as the final word on the cultural history of the clash of civilizations. His attempt to short-circuit the 'maledicta', the words of pure hate at the heart of the relationship between Islam and the West, through a greater understanding of the history of mutual repulsion should be applauded.

All that said I had the impression that he wanted to cover too broad an issue in a new way. Certainly, he warns that his aim is not to explain why things happened that way, but how they happen, but in my opinion the very choice of some facts supposedly to be relevant implicitly asks for some kind of explanation that in this work is never openly developped.The final result is somehow confusing.

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent!, 23 Jul 2006
This review is from: Infidels: A History of the Conflict Between Christendom and Islam (Paperback)
A thoroughly enjoyable read that sheds light on the relation between Islam and Christianity. My recommendation for everyone who reads this book is to do so whilst leaving theological issues and your own religious views out of it. The book looks at Christendom and 'Islamdom'; in other words it is neither for nor against either faith, rather, it is concerned with the institutionalized manifestations of these faiths... manifestations that are all too often overshadowed by political considerations and outright hypocricy.
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16 of 24 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars Not worth the Paper!, 10 Sep 2003
In his introduction, Mr. Wheatcroft asserts that this area of history is not his speciality. Every succeeding page served to confirm that assertion.

His chronolgy is not only flawed but highly selective. For any historian to view Lepanto without reference to the defence of Malta in 1565 is indicative on a flawed comprehension of the Christian/Muslim dynamic in the 15-18th centuries.

From there it went downhill, the Cordoba martyrs are zealots, self-sacrificing fanatics, the complete antithesis of their tolerant and benevolent Islamic masters. I really began to think that I was reading promo material for the "Magnificent 19" because the author's reasoning was as skewed as that used by the supporters of Al-Quaeda & terrorism.

I bought this book, expecting an objective review as indicated by the title. What I received, does not warrant shelfspace & has been consigned to the recycling bin!

Stick to teaching English, Mr. Wheatcroft!

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