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Interesting but biased - Rated
Although I learned a lot from this book, I also stumbled across a lot of the writers' anti-Jewish and anti-western biases. The sections on St. Francis are largely irrelevant except for his short interaction with Muslims during the crusades. The example was drawn out too long to be useful.
St. Francis Example:A Relationship between East and West - Rated
Many books have dealt with the relations between East and West. But what makes Christine Mallouhi's work "Waging Peace on Islam" different is her personal experience as a Westerner and Christian who spent almost a quarter of a century in the Arab world and married to a Syrian Muslim author, Mazhar Mallouhi. This makes the classification of Mallouhi's book more elusive. It is a mixture of autobiographical narrations, cultural criticism, and scholarly ideas. Mallouhi tries to dismantle the problematic relationship between East and West by recurring to the historical clash between Christianity and Islam, ranging from the Crusades to the Palestinian -Israeli struggle and its implications on inter-govermental relations and the daily life of ordinary people in the Middle East. However, what makes Mallouhi's book distinguished is the approach she adopts in dealing with those entagled historical and modern issues. She take St. Francis of Assissi as an example of a positive relationship between the two entities, Christendom and Isalm. St. Francis, instead of engaging in the battle against Muslims, goes in peace to the Muslim Sultan in 1219 A.D, offering unconditional love. Mallouhi thinks that that encounter between the two exalted persons, a spiritual giant and a gifted political and military leader, had probed the depth of the two cultures. It has set an example to how a positive relationship should be between the followers of a religion that calls for love (Christianity) and another that calls for surrender to the will of God (Islam). In addition, this work could be enjoyed by both specilaists and laymen, and used as a source in its field. However, the work that has enriched the library of books on East and West relations, has minor mistakes that should be rectified by a specilist before it is reprinted. Hisham Shihab
