Sons of Ishmael : Muslims through European eyes in the Middle Ages / John V. Tolan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Tolan, John Victor, 1959-

Contributor:

Class of 1953 Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Islam--Relations--Christianity.

Islam.

Relations.

Christianity.

Christianity and other religions--Islam.

Christianity and other religions.

Religious thought--Europe.

Religious thought.

Religious thought--Middle Ages, 600-1500.

Religious thought--Middle Ages.

Middle East--Relations--Europe.

Middle East.

Europe--Relations--Middle East.

Europe.

Middle Ages--Historiography.

Middle Ages.

Islam--Controversial literature.

Middle East Region.

Physical Description:

xvii, 231 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Gainesville : University Press of Florida, [2008]

Contents:

Antihagiography: Embrico of Mainz's Vita Mahumeti

A mangled corpse: the polemical dismemberment of Muhammad

Rhetoric, polemics, and the art of hostile biography: portraying Muhammad in thirteenth-century Christian Spain

Peter the Venerable on the "diabolical heresy of the Saracens"

The dream of conversion: baptizing pagan kings in the crusade epics

Mirror of chivalry: Saladin in the medieval European imagination

Veneratio Sarracenorum: shared devotion among Muslims and Christians, according to Burchard of Strasbourg, envoy from Frederic Barbarossa to Saladin (c. 1175)

Saracen philosophers secretly deride Islam

Walls of hatred and contempt: the anti-Muslim polemics of Pedro Pascual

A dreadful racket: the clanging of bells and the yowling of muezzins in Iberian interconfessional polemics.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [201]-221) and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Class of 1953 Fund.

ISBN:

9780813032221

0813032229

OCLC:

175056411