Volume 40, Number 16 · October 7, 1993
Intimate Enemies
By Shaul Bakhash
Islam and the West
by Bernard Lewis
Oxford University Press, 217 pp., $25.00
Islam and Christianity, Bernard Lewis writes in his new book, have been called 'sister religions,' because of their shared Judaic, Hellenistic, and Middle Eastern heritage. Yet throughout thirteen centuries they have most often been in combat. They were both 'old acquaintances' and 'intimate enemies, whose continuing conflict derived a special virulence from their shared origins and common aims.'
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