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Saracens: Islam in the Medieval European Imagination
John V. Tolan
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Description for Saracens: Islam in the Medieval European Imagination
Hardback. Medieval Christian writers distorted the teachings of Islam and caricatured its believers in a variety of ways. What ideological purposes did these offensive portrayals serve? This book provides a comprehensive study of Christian polemical responses to Islam in the Middle Ages. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: 3H; 3J; HRAF; HRAX; HRCM; HRH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 185 x 26. Weight in Grams: 726.
In the first century of Islam, most of the former Christian Roman Empire, from Syria to Spain, was brought under Muslim control in a conquest of unprecedented proportions. Confronted by the world of Islam, countless medieval Christians experienced a profound ambivalence, awed by its opulence, they were also troubled by its rival claims to the spiritual inheritance of Abraham and Jesus and humiliated by its social subjugation of non-Muslim minorities. Some converted. Others took up arms. Still others, the subjects of John Tolan's study of anti-Muslim polemics in medieval Europe, undertook to attack Islam and its most vivid avatar, the ... Read more
In the first century of Islam, most of the former Christian Roman Empire, from Syria to Spain, was brought under Muslim control in a conquest of unprecedented proportions. Confronted by the world of Islam, countless medieval Christians experienced a profound ambivalence, awed by its opulence, they were also troubled by its rival claims to the spiritual inheritance of Abraham and Jesus and humiliated by its social subjugation of non-Muslim minorities. Some converted. Others took up arms. Still others, the subjects of John Tolan's study of anti-Muslim polemics in medieval Europe, undertook to attack Islam and its most vivid avatar, the ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
398
Condition
New
Number of Pages
400
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780231123327
SKU
V9780231123327
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About John V. Tolan
John V. Tolan is Maitre de Conferences en histoire medievale, Department d'histoire, Universite de Nantes. He is the author of Petrus Alfonsi and His Medieval Readers and editor of Medieval Christian Perceptions of Islam: A Collection of Essays.
Reviews for Saracens: Islam in the Medieval European Imagination
A significant contribution to the study of Islam's place in the medieval Christian imagination, this work is highly recommended. Choice Tolan's book is welcome as a rare systematic treatment of medieval Christian attitudes toward Muslims... Tolan's remarks invite us to explore the important question of why that is so.
Tomaz Mastnak Speculum Saracens contains comprehensive notes, a thorough bibliography, ... Read more
Tomaz Mastnak Speculum Saracens contains comprehensive notes, a thorough bibliography, ... Read more