Saracens Islam in the Medieval European Imagination

Name: Saracens Islam in the Medieval European Imagination
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ISBN: 9780231506465

ISBN-10: 0231506465

ISBN-13: 9780231506465

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Authors: John V. Tolan

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In an effort to make sense of God's apparent abandonment of Christendom in favor of a dynamic and expanding Muslim civilization, European writers distorted the teachings of Islam and caricatured its believers in a variety of ways. What ideological purposes did these portrayals serve? And how, in turn, did Muslims view Christianity? Tolan shows how Christian responses to Islam changed from the seventh to thirteenth centuries, through fast-charging crusades and spirit-crushing defeats, crystallizing into polemical images later drawn upon by Western authors in the fourteenth to twentieth centuries.

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List price: $34.99
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Publication date: 5/1/2002
Pages: 400
Language: English

John Hagan is the John D. MacArthur Professor of Sociology and Law at Northwestern University and codirector of the Center on Law and Globalization at the American Bar Foundation. He received the Stockholm Prize in Criminology in 2009. His books include "Darfur and the Crime of Genocide".



Acknowledgments


Abbreviations


Introduction: Riccoldo's Predicament, or How to Explain Away the Successes of a Flourishing Rival Civilization



Foundations (Seventh-Eighth Centuries)



God and History in the Christian West c. 600



Islamic Dominion and the Religious Other



Early Eastern Christian Reactions to Islam



Forging Polemical Images (Eighth-Twelfth Centuries)



Western Christian Responses to Islam (Eighth-Ninth Centuries)



Saracens as Pagans



Muhammad, Heresiarch (Twelfth Century)



Thirteenth-Century Dreams of Conquest and Conversion



The Muslim in the Ideologies of Thirteenth-Century Christian Spain



Apocalyptic Fears and Hopes Inspired by the Thirteenth-Century Crusades



Franciscan Missionaries Seeking the Martyr's Palm



The Dominican Missionary Strategy



From Verdant Grove to Dark Prison: Realms of Mission in Ramon Llull


Conclusion


Notes


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Index