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994658
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b749028
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Tolan, John Victor,1959-
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Saracens : : Islam in the medieval European imagination /\ John V. Tolan.
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New York :: Columbia University Press,, ©2002.
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1 online resource (xxiii, 372 pages)
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0231506465
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0231123329
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0231123337
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9780231123327
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9780231123334
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 349-358) and index.
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| Contents
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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).
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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.
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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-- Historiography.
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Islam-- Relations-- Christianity.
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Middle Ages-- Historiography.
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Christianisme-- Relations-- Islam.
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Islam-- Historiographie.
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Islam-- Relations-- Christianisme.
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Moyen Âge-- Historiographie.
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Christentum
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Christianity.
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HISTORY-- Medieval.
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Interfaith relations.
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Islam
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Islam-- Historiography.
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Islam.
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Islambild
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Middle Ages-- Historiography.
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RELIGION-- Christian Life-- Social Issues.
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RELIGION-- Christianity-- General.
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Beeldvorming.
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Islam.
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Europa.
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Sarazenen.
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| Dewey Classification
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261.2/7
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BP172.T62 2002eb
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11.84bcl
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