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Islam And The West
For more than 1,400 years, since the advent of Islam in Arabia and the incorporation into the Islamic empire and civilization of the formerly Christian eastern and southern shores of the Mediterranean, Islam and Christendom have lived side by side-always as neighbors, often as rivals, sometimes as enemies. In a sense, each is defined and delimited by the other. "God is one, alone, and eternal," says the Qur'an. "He begetteth not neither is He begotten and He hath no peer." In this and other explicit rejections of Christian positions, Islam clearly distances itself from its predecessor and asserts its own universal message and mission. Yet, at the same time, the scripture and traditions of Islam, and the entire civilization created under their aegis, demonstrate in a thousand ways the profound affinities that link Islam with Christianity and with their common Judaic, Hellenistic, and Middle Eastern antecedents.
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