Jesuits and Islam in Europe / by Emanuele Colombo, Paul Shore.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Colombo, Emanuele, author.

Series:

Brill research perspectives in Jesuit studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jesuits--History.

Jesuits.

Christianity and other religions--Islam.

Christianity and other religions.

Muslims--Europe--History.

Muslims.

Europe--Church history.

Europe.

Christianity.

Interfaith relations.

Islam.

Genre:

Church history

History

Physical Description:

viii, 115 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2023.

Summary:

This volume looks at both Jesuit efforts to engage Muslim populations with Europe, such as the Moriscos, and the work of Jesuit missionaries and others in settings such as Constantinople. The activities of the Society of Jesus along the eastern frontier with the Ottoman Empire is detailed, as are the careers of individual Jesuits such as Tomás de León and Antonio Possevino who devoted much of their careers to responding to the claims of Islam and the pressures applied on Christian Europe by Muslim polities. Less well-known Jesuit personalities such as the translator Ignazio Lomellini are also profiled.

Contents:

1. An encounter on the Road

2. Ignatius of Loyola and Islam

3. A Morisco Jesuit : Ignacio de las Casa

4. Between war and accommodation : Antonion Possevino

5. Jesuits and Islam in seventeenth-century Western Europe

6. Converting Muslim slaves : the Jesuit missionary approach

7. Polemics along the frontier : Péter Pázmány and István Szántó

8. Two Jesuit outposts and the Islamic world : Constantinople and Malta

9. Two Jesuit scholars and Arabic studies : Ignazio Lomellini and Tomás de León

10. Conclusion : underground river

Bibliography.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Other Format:

Electronic version: Colombo, Emanuele. Jesuits and Islam in Europe.

ISBN:

9789004462502

9004462503

OCLC:

1380459489