Volume 51, Number 17 · November 4, 2004
The Truth About Muslims
By William Dalrymple
The Cross and the Crescent: Christianity and Islam from Muhammad to the Reformation
by Richard Fletcher
Viking, 183 pp., $22.95
From Babel to Dragomans: Interpreting the Middle East
by Bernard Lewis
Oxford University Press, 438 pp., $28.00
In the Lands of the Christians: Arab Travel Writing in the Seventeenth Century
edited and translated by Nabil Matar
Routledge, 229 pp., $23.95 (paper)
Turks, Moors, and Englishmen in the Age of Discovery
by Nabil Matar
Columbia University Press, 268 pp., $70.00; $20.00 (paper)
Islam in Britain, 1558–1685
by Nabil Matar
Cambridge University Press,226 pp., $80.00
Sometime in the early 1140s a scholar from northern Italy made an arduous crossing of the Alps and the Pyrenees and eventually arrived in the newly reconquered Spanish town of Toledo. There Gerard of Cremona was given the position of canon at the cathedral, formerly the Friday Mosque, which had recently been seized from the town's Muslims.
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