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Maxim Rodinson

"In Italy, people of many regions have expressed to their governments that they would welcome wholeheartedly Turkish invasion like some other Balkan Christians did. The followers of John Calvin (1509-1564) in Hungary and Transylvania, along with the Protestants of Silesia and the old Russian believers, have resorted to Turkey to escape Catholic and Orthodox persecution, similar to what Spanish Jews have done two centuries before. The accumulation of accurate information about Islam and its people, the increased political and commercial communication and the resultant understanding and appreciation of the scientific and philosophical doctrines of Islam, all these things added to the slow internal development of the Western mentality, and led to a change in the viewpoint of the foreign world."

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