The Case for Islamo-Christian Civilization

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Refashioning that earliest essay, from which the book has taken its
title, into a rebuttal of Huntington’s Clash of Civilizations thesis,
Bulliet explains that there are more similarities than differences
between Christendom and the Muslim Middle East. The conversion
processes during the earliest centuries shared many features; in
particular the slow percolation of the new religions into the lower
social strata. As contacts became more intensive during the middle
periods, it is true that mutual hostility increased but even then
peaceful exchange was more common than violent interaction. Only from
about 1500 did the two civilizations go their separate ways, but – in
an explicit rejection of Huntington – Bulliet observes that this was
more due to accidents of history than an inherent necessity resulting
from irrevocably different outlooks.

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