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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. |
Abstract:
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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