The Dragon and the Crescent
£12.99
Nine Centuries of Contact with Islam
In The Dragon and the Crescent poet and critic Grahame Davies explores the relationship between Wales and Islam through a compilation of writings by Welsh authors.
About the Book
Stretching back to the Crusades, through the eighteenth century and William Williams Pantycelyn’s influential book on world religions, to the present-day, the book takes in a range of writing (and attitudes), including the publication of the controversial cartoons of Mohammed in the Welsh magazines Gair Rhydd and Y Llan. There are memoirs and letters from missionaries, military diaries and journals, hymns, poems and stories, travel writings and even a poem from 2006 by Gwynfor ab Ifor about the mentality of a suicide bomber.
A fascinating and at times unexpected view of Welsh, British and Islamic history.
The authors featured include: Ann Griffiths, Eluned Morgan, T Gwynn Jones, Llywelyn ap Grffudd, Cynan, TE Lawrence, Lloyd George, Wiliam Owen Roberts, Islwyn Ffowc Elis, Iwan Llwyd, Gwenallt, Gwyn Williams and Angharad Tomos.
