SOURCE: "Byzantine Views of Islam," in Dumbarton Oaks Papers, No. 18, 1964, pp. 113-32.
In the following essay, originally delivered as a lecture in 1963, Meyendorff contends that although there was some sophisticated understanding on each side of the Christian-Moslem confrontation, the two realms generally "remained impenetrable" in terms of real influence. The critic also discusses the superficiality of the interpretations of Islam that were instituted largely by John of Damascus.
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