ABSTRACT
This chapter is a recapitulation of the central argument of the book. I emphasize the important transitional role of the early modern period in the history of Christian-Islamic relations and describe how the confluence of three factors—new information gathered from increased military and mercantile contact, increased communication due to the explosion of print media, and disparate theological ideas developed during the Protestant Reformation—destabilized medieval Christian paradigms and created space for new perspectives to arise without completely displacing inherited medieval understandings.
