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Saracens : Islam in the medieval European imagination

Author: John Victor Tolan
Publisher: New York : Columbia University Press, 2002.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Medieval Christian writers distorted the teachings of Islam and caricatured its believers in a variety of ways. This book provides a comprehensive study of Christian polemical responses to Islam in the Middle Ages.
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Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: John Victor Tolan
ISBN: 0231123329 9780231123327 0231123337 9780231123334
OCLC Number: 48098386
Description: xxiii p. ; 24 cm.
Contents: Introduction: Riccoldo's Predicament, or How to Explain Away the Successes of a Flourishing Rival Civilization --
Foundations (Seventh-Eighth Centuries) --
God and History in the Christian West c. 600 --
Islamic Dominion and the Religious Other --
Early Eastern Christian Reactions to Islam --
Forging Polemical Images (Eighth-Twelfth Centuries) --
Western Christian Responses to Islam (Eighth-Ninth Centuries) --
Saracens as Pagans --
Muhammad, Heresiarch (Twelfth Century) --
Thirteenth-Century Dreams of Conquest and Conversion --
The Muslim in the Ideologies of Thirteenth-Century Christian Spain --
Apocalyptic Fears and Hopes Inspired by the Thirteenth-Century Crusades --
Franciscan Missionaries Seeking the Martyr's Palm --
The Dominican Missionary Strategy --
From Verdant Grove to Dark Prison: Realms of Mission in Ramon Llull.
Responsibility: John V. Tolan.

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Medieval Christian writers distorted the teachings of Islam and caricatured its believers in a variety of ways. This book provides a comprehensive study of Christian polemical responses to Islam in the Middle Ages.

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