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Saracens : Islam in the medieval European imagination / John V. Tolan.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York : Columbia University Press, ©2002.Description: 1 online resource (xxiii, 372 pages)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 0231506465
  • 9780231506465
  • 0231123337
  • 9780231123334
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Saracens.DDC classification:
  • 261.2/7 21
LOC classification:
  • BP172 .T62 2002eb
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  • online - EBSCO
  • 11.84
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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).
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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eBook eBook Biblioteca "Angelicum" Pont. Univ. S.Tommaso d'Aquino Nuvola online online - EBSCO (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Online access Not for loan (Accesso limitato) Accesso per gli utenti autorizzati / Access for authorized users (ebsco)74610

Includes bibliographical references (pages 349-358) and index.

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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).

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.

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.