Islam In Europaean Thought
From the time it first appeared,the religion of islam was a problem for cristian Europe. Those who believed in it were the enemy on the frontier. In the seventh and the eighth centuries armies fighting in the name of the muslim empire, the caliphate , expandet into the heart christian world. The occupied provinces of the Byzantine empire in Syiria ,the Holy Land and Egypt,and Sicily,and the concuest was not only a military one,it was followed in course of time by conversions to islam on a largee scale.
From the time it first appeared,the religion of islam was a problem for cristian Europe. Those who believed in it were the enemy on the frontier. In the seventh and the eighth centuries armies fighting in the name of the muslim empire, the caliphate , expandet into the heart christian world. The occupied provinces of the Byzantine empire in Syiria ,the Holy Land and Egypt,and Sicily,and the concuest was not only a military one,it was followed in course of time by conversions to islam on a largee scale.
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