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1 online resource (xxiii, 372 pages) |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 349-358) and index. |
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Print version record. |
| 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). |
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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. |
| 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. |
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Christianity and other religions -- Islam.
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Islam -- Relations -- Christianity.
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Islam -- Historiography.
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Middle Ages -- Historiography.
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Christianity and other religions -- Islam.
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Islam -- Historiography.
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Islam -- Relations -- Christianity.
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Middle Ages -- Historiography.
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RELIGION -- Christianity -- General.
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RELIGION -- Christian Life -- Social Issues.
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HISTORY -- Medieval.
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Christianity. (OCoLC)fst00859599
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Interfaith relations. (OCoLC)fst01353343
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Islam. (OCoLC)fst00979776
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Islam -- Historiography.
(OCoLC)fst00979803
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Middle Ages -- Historiography.
(OCoLC)fst01020302
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Tolan, John Victor, 1959- Saracens. New York : Columbia University Press, ©2002 0231123329 (DLC) 2001047706 (OCoLC)48098386 |
| ISBN |
0231506465 (electronic bk.) |
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9780231506465 (electronic bk.) |
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