Sons of Ishmael [electronic resource] : Muslims through European Eyes in the Middle Ages /
Tolan, John Victor,1959-
Gainesville : University Press of Florida,
c2008.
'Sons of Ishmael' is the epithet that many Christian writers of the Middle Ages gave to Muslims. This title focuses on the history of conflict and convergence between Latin Christendom and the Arab Muslim world during this period. The author, in these 11 essays, explores a wide variety of topics in a greater depth than his previous works.
'Sons of Ishmael' is the epithet that many Christian writers of the Middle Ages gave to Muslims. This title focuses on the history of conflict and convergence between Latin Christendom and the Arab Muslim world during this period. The author, in these 11 essays, explores a wide variety of topics in a greater depth than his previous works.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [201]-221) and index.
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.
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Islam
Middle Ages
Religious thought
Religious thought
Christianity and other religions
Islam