During the early modern period, Muslim and European Protestant leaders and states often made diplomatic and commercial contacts, including occasional military alliances and collaboration. At this time the two groups shared an enemy in the Catholic Habsburg empire which sought to eliminate what they considered to be an emerging Protestant heresy and to drive out the greatly expanding Muslim Ottoman Empire from Europe.
During the early modern period, Muslim and European Protestant leaders and states often made diplomatic and commercial contacts, including occasional military alliances and collaboration. At this time the two groups shared an enemy in the Catholic Habsburg empire which sought to eliminate what they considered to be an emerging Protestant heresy and to drive out the greatly expanding Muslim Ottoman Empire from Europe.
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