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The Rise of Christianity and Islam in Gibbon’s Decline and Fall

In Gibbon’s The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire he discusses the relationship between Islam and Christianity and between religion and liberty in the nascent Muslim and Christian worlds.

Guide to the Readings

Edition used:

• Edward Gibbon, The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, ed. J.B. Bury with an Introduction by W.E.H. Lecky (New York: Fred de Fau and Co., 1906), in 12 vols.

See also in the Online Library of Liberty:

• Subject Area: Religion, History
• Edward Gibbon (1737-1794)
• The Koran

• Session I: The Growth of Christianity

  Edward Gibbon, The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, ed. J.B. Bury with an Introduction by W.E.H. Lecky (New York: Fred de Fau and Co., 1906), in 12 vols. Vol. 2. Chapter: CHAPTER XIV

  Accessed from oll.libertyfund.org/title/1366/90143 on 2008-02-07

• Session II: The Conversion of Constantine

  Edward Gibbon, The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, ed. J.B. Bury with an Introduction by W.E.H. Lecky (New York: Fred de Fau and Co., 1906), in 12 vols. Vol. 3. Chapter: CHAPTER XX

  Accessed from oll.libertyfund.org/title/1367/12170 on 2008-02-07

• Session III: The Destruction of Paganism and the Conversion of Clovis (Reading 1)

  Edward Gibbon, The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, ed. J.B. Bury with an Introduction by W.E.H. Lecky (New York: Fred de Fau and Co., 1906), in 12 vols. Vol. 5. Chapter: CHAPTER XXVIII

  Accessed from oll.libertyfund.org/title/1372/51640 on 2008-02-07

• Session III: The Destruction of Paganism and the Conversion of Clovis (Reading 2)

  Edward Gibbon, The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, ed. J.B. Bury with an Introduction by W.E.H. Lecky (New York: Fred de Fau and Co., 1906), in 12 vols. Vol. 6. Chapter: CHAPTER XXXVIII

  Accessed from oll.libertyfund.org/title/1373/90180 on 2008-02-07

• Session IV: Mahomet and the Origins of Islam and Session V: Mahomet as Preacher and Warrior of Islam

  Read the first half of Chapter L for Session IV and the second half for Session V

  Edward Gibbon, The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, ed. J.B. Bury with an Introduction by W.E.H. Lecky (New York: Fred de Fau and Co., 1906), in 12 vols. Vol. 9. Chapter: CHAPTER L

  Accessed from oll.libertyfund.org/title/1436/90393 on 2008-02-07

• Session VI: The Crusades: Christianity and Islam in Conflict (Reading 2)

  Edward Gibbon, The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, ed. J.B. Bury with an Introduction by W.E.H. Lecky (New York: Fred de Fau and Co., 1906), in 12 vols. Vol. 10. Chapter: CHAPTER LIX

  Accessed from oll.libertyfund.org/title/1559/90440 on 2008-02-07

• Session VI: The Crusades: Christianity and Islam in Conflict (Reading 1)

  Edward Gibbon, The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, ed. J.B. Bury with an Introduction by W.E.H. Lecky (New York: Fred de Fau and Co., 1906), in 12 vols. Vol. 10. Chapter: CHAPTER LVIII

  Accessed from oll.libertyfund.org/title/1559/90439 on 2008-02-07