The Financial Times began its review of Submission thus:
In chapter 52 of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Edward Gibbon speculated about an alternative turn of history. Had Charles Martel not stemmed the tide of Muslim conquest at the battle of Poitiers in 732, he wrote, “perhaps the interpretation of the Koran would now be taught in the schools of Oxford, and her pulpits might demons
Submission by Michel Houellebecq
In chapter 52 of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Edward Gibbon speculated about an alternative turn of history. Had Charles Martel not stemmed the tide of Muslim conquest at the battle of Poitiers in 732, he wrote, “perhaps the interpretation of the Koran would now be taught in the schools of Oxford, and her pulpits might demons
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