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Helen Pfeifer, 4 June 2020
Useful Enemies: Islam and the Ottoman Empire in Western Political Thought 1450-1750
by Noel Malcolm.
Oxford, 512 pp., £25, May 2019,978 0 19 883013 9 Show More
by Noel Malcolm.
Oxford, 512 pp., £25, May 2019,
“... Christianity. If Islam was a tool cleverly manipulated by temporal powers, could the same not be said of Christianity? In many ways, Malcolm’s book is a testament to the destabilising power of ideas. Seeking to understand others came at the risk of undermining accepted understandings of one’s own society and religion.Anyone who has studied the history ... ”