Title: Sons of Ishmael : Muslims through European eyes in the Middle Ages /
Authors: Tolan, John Victor, 1959-
Publisher: University Press of Florida,
Year: 2008
Subjects: Islam Controversial literature History and criticism.; Islam Relations Christianity; Christianity and other religions Islam; Religious thought Europe.; Religious thought; Middle Ages Historiography; Islam Controversial literature; Middle East Relations Europe.; Europe Relations Middle East.
Abstract: "John V. Tolan is one of the world's foremost scholars in the field of early Christian/Muslim interactions. In ten essays, he explores "Sons of Ishmael," the epithet many Christian writers of the Middle Ages gave to Muslims, Sons of Ishmael focuses on the history of conflict and convergence between Latin Christendom and the Arab Muslim world during this period."--Jacket.
Contents: 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.