In the Name of God

A History of Christian and Muslim Intolerance

Selina O'Grady

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Atlantic
03 September 2019

Religion & beliefs; Religious intolerance, persecution & conflict; History of religion; Christianity; Islam; Judaism

Christianity is tolerant, Islam is not. Islam is an inherently violent, ossified religion which can never come to terms with the Enlightenment. How right or wrong are these assumptions? In this groundbreaking new book, Selina O'Grady asks how and why our societies came to be as tolerant or intolerant as they are? Whether tolerance can be expected to heal today's festering wound between Islam and the post-Christian West? Or whether something deeper than tolerance is needed.

Told through contemporary chronicles, stories and poems, Selina O'Grady takes the reader through the intertwined histories of the Muslim, Christian and Jewish persecutors and persecuted. From Umar, the seventh century Islamic caliph who laid down the rules for the treatment of religious minorities in what was becoming the greatest empire the world has ever known, to Magna Carta John who seriously considered converting to Islam; and from al-Wahaabi, whose own brother thought he was illiterate and fanatical, but who created the religious-military alliance with the house of Saud that still survives today, to Europe's bloody Thirty Years war that wearied Europe of murderous inter-Christian violence but probably killed God in the process. This book will be an essential guide to understanding Islam and the West today and the role of religion in the modern world.

By: Selina O'Grady
Imprint: Atlantic
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Edition: Main
Dimensions: Height: 240mm, Width: 164mm, Spine: 43mm
Weight: 935g
ISBN: 9781843547006
ISBN 10: 1843547007
Pages: 480
Publication Date: 03 September 2019
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Selina O'Grady was a producer of BBC1's moral documentary series Heart of the Matter, presented by Joan Bakewell, Channel 4's live chat show After Dark, and Radio 4's history series Leviathan. She is the author of And Man Created God and has written for the Guardian, Mail on Sunday, Literary Review and The Oldie.

Reviews for In the Name of God: A History of Christian and Muslim Intolerance

This is an important book written with an engaging zeal to try to improve our world. It encompasses a deep cultural hinterland, a vast geographical landscape and a narrative of 1,700 years... This is history with a clear mission for our own times. * The Oldie * This is a very important and highly illuminating book. Lucid, incisive and comprehensive, it raises one of the key questions of our time: in a world divided in so many ways, and most especially by religion, how are its peoples to find a way to live together? Through an examination of the history of tolerance and intolerance, and an analysis of the concept of tolerance itself, O'Grady asks whether 'tolerance' is even the right concept to use - and asks: if it is not, what is? * A. C. Grayling * In a wide-ranging study that has urgent contemporary relevance, Selina O'Grady casts a cool eye over the battlefields of power, fanaticism and faith that have caused so much devastation in a world of competing beliefs. -- Malise Ruthven * Financial Times * A timely history... Sweeps through the centuries with panache. -- Tom Holland * Sunday Times *