Volume 39, Number 6 · March 26, 1992

Muslims, Christians, and Jews: The Dream of Coexistence

By Bernard Lewis

The term coexistence, as it is used at the present time, implies a willingness to live at peace, and perhaps even in mutual respect, with others. It might therefore be useful to begin with a glance at the notion of 'otherness,' which, no doubt as a result of the conspicuous failures of coexistence—religious, national, racial, social, ideological—in our century, has received a good deal of attention of late.[1]



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