TY  - BOOK
AU  - Tolan,John Victor
TI  - Saracens: Islam in the medieval European imagination 
SN  - 0231123329 (alk. paper)
AV  - BP172 .T62 2002
U1  - ARCH YNDC 261.27 T647S 
PY  - 2002///
CY  - New York
PB  - Columbia University Press
KW  - Christianity and other religions
KW  - Islam
KW  - Relations
KW  - Christianity
KW  - Historiography
KW  - Middle Ages
N1  - 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
N2  - 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
ER  -