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Saracens : Islam in the medieval European imagination / John V. Tolan.
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TextPublication details: New York : Columbia University Press, 2002.Description: xxiii p. ; 24 cmISBN: - 0231123329 (alk. paper)
- 9780231123327 (alk. paper)
- 0231123337
- 9780231123334
- ARCH YNDC 261.27 T647S
- BP172 .T62 2002
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Summary: 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.
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.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 349-358) and index.
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.
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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