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Europe and the Islamic world : a history / John Tolan, Gilles Veinstein, and Henry Laurens ; translated by Jane Marie Todd ; with a Foreword by John L. Esposito.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Tolan, John Victor, 1959-
- Standardized Title:
- Europe et l'islam. English
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Veinstein, Gilles.
- Laurens, Henry, 1954-.
- Laurens, Henry.
- Todd, Jane Marie, 1957-.
- Todd, Jane Marie.
- Islamic civilization--Western influences.
- Islamic civilization.
- Europe--Relations--Middle East.
- Europe.
- Middle East--Relations--Europe.
- Middle East.
- Europe--Relations--Islamic countries.
- Islamic countries--Relations--Europe.
- Islamic countries.
- Europe--Civilization--Islamic influences.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (493 p.)
- Edition:
- Course Book
- Place of Publication:
- Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 2013.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Europe and the Islamic World sheds much-needed light on the shared roots of Islamic and Western cultures and on the richness of their inextricably intertwined histories, refuting once and for all the misguided notion of a "clash of civilizations" between the Muslim world and Europe. In this landmark book, three eminent historians bring to life the complex and tumultuous relations between Genoans and Tunisians, Alexandrians and the people of Constantinople, Catalans and Maghrebis--the myriad groups and individuals whose stories reflect the common cultural, intellectual, and religious heritage of Europe and Islam. Since the seventh century, when the armies of Constantinople and Medina fought for control of Syria and Palestine, there has been ongoing contact between the Muslim world and the West. This sweeping history vividly recounts the wars and the crusades, the alliances and diplomacy, commerce and the slave trade, technology transfers, and the intellectual and artistic exchanges. Here readers are given an unparalleled introduction to key periods and events, including the Muslim conquests, the collapse of the Byzantine Empire, the commercial revolution of the medieval Mediterranean, the intellectual and cultural achievements of Muslim Spain, the crusades and Spanish reconquest, the rise of the Ottomans and their conquest of a third of Europe, European colonization and decolonization, and the challenges and promise of this entwined legacy today. As provocative as it is groundbreaking, this book describes this shared history in all its richness and diversity, revealing how ongoing encounters between Europe and Islam have profoundly shaped both.
- Contents:
- pt. I. Saracens and Ifranj : rivalries, emulation, and convergences / by John Tolan
- pt. II. The great Turk and Europe / by Gilles Veinstein
- pt. III. Europe and the Muslim world in the contemporary period / by Henry Laurens.
- Notes:
- Henry Laurens's name appears first on the original French ed.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781283646208
- 128364620X
- 9781400844753
- 1400844754
- OCLC:
- 813844021
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