The relations of Christians, Jews, and Muslims around the Mediterranean were tumultuous for centuries, and still have consequences (in the Balkans, for instance) that we need to understand if we are to cope with politics and conflict today. In the book Cultures in Conflict. Christians, Muslims, and Jews in the Age of Discovery by Bernard Lewis, those relations are examined to reveal the relative position of each and the eventual decline of one to give …showed first 75 words of 1073 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1073 total…with completely but in the end he reveals his Western bias. After a sympathetic treatment of all three faiths, he comes down squarely in favor of Western culture: "In setting out to conquer, subjugate, and despoil other peoples, the Europeans were merely following the example set them by their neighbors and predecessors and, indeed, conforming to the common practice of mankind? (pp 73). I don?t disagree with the statement; I just find confliction simply unconvincing.