Saracens : Islam in the medieval European imagination / John V. Tolan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Tolan, John Victor, 1959-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Christianity and other religions--Islam.

Christianity and other religions.

Islam--Relations--Christianity.

Islam.

Islam--Historiography.

Middle Ages--Historiography.

Middle Ages.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (401 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York : Columbia University Press, c2002.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 a

Contents:

Contents; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Introduction: Riccoldo's Predicament, or How to Explain Away the Successes of a Flourishing Rival Civilization; Part One: FOUNDATIONS (SEVENTH-EIGHTH CENTURIES); 1. God and History in the Christian West c. 600; 2. Islamic Dominion and the Religious Other; 3. Early Eastern Christian Reactions to Islam; Part Two: FORGING POLEMICAL IMAGES (EIGHTH-TWELFTH CENTURIES); 4. Western Christian Responses to Islam (Eighth-Ninth Centuries); 5. Saracens as Pagans; 6. Muhammad, Heresiarch (Twelfth Century)

Part Three: THIRTEENTH-CENTURY DREAMS OF CONQUEST AND CONVERSION7. The Muslim in the Ideologies of Thirteenth-Century Christian Spain; 8. Apocalyptic Fears and Hopes Inspired by the Thirteenth-Century Crusades; 9. Franciscan Missionaries Seeking the Martyr's Palm; 10. The Dominican Missionary Strategy; 11. From Verdant Grove to Dark Prison: Realms of Mission in Ramon Llull; Conclusion; Notes; Select Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781322353395

1322353395

9780231506465

0231506465

OCLC:

826477682