A faithful sea : the religious cultures of the Mediterranean, 1200-1700 / edited by Adnan A. Husain and K.E. Fleming.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Husain, Adnan Ahmed.

Fleming, K. E. (Katherine Elizabeth), 1965-

Series:

Islam and the West

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Religion.

Mediterranean Region--Religion.

Mediterranean Region.

Mediterranean Region--Religious life and customs.

Mediterranean Region--History.

History.

Physical Description:

ix, 226 pages ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oneworld, 2007.

Summary:

Contemporary academia relies upon categorization. One can study Africa or Europe; East or West; the Middle Ages or the Early Modern period. In this innovative collection of essays, the Mediterranean is taken as a whole. The birthplace of the three principal monotheistic religions, it is shown to be a distinct cultural space characterized by hybridity, diversity, and cultural dynamism.

Contents:

Introduction: approaching Islam and the religious cultures of the medieval and early modern Mediterranean / Adnan A. Husain

Insularity: a literary history of Muslim Lucera / Karla Mallette

Taking Gratian to Africa: Raymond de Penyafort's legal advice to the Dominicans and Franciscans in Tunis (1234) / John V. Tolan

Bulgarini's Assumption with Doubting Thomas: art, trade, and faith in post-plague Siena / Anne McClanan

The saint in the harem: the commerce of inter-religious relations in the Florentine Rappresentazione di Rosana / Margaret Aziza Pappano

Two rabbinic views of Ottoman Mediterranean ascendancy: the Cronica de los Reyes Otomanos and the Seder Eliyahu Zuta / K.E. Fleming

Trading identities: the sixteenth-century Greek moment / Molly Greene

A travelogue manqué? The accidental itinerary of a Maltese priest in the seventeenth-century Mediterranean / Ariel Salzmann

Apology for S.D. Goitein: an essay / Steven M. Wasserstrom.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781851684960

1851684964

OCLC:

74525685