Sons of Ishmael Muslims through European eyes in the Middle Ages / John V. Tolan.

Author/creator Tolan, John Victor, 1959-
Other author American Council of Learned Societies.
Format Electronic
Publication InfoGainesville : University Press of Florida,
Descriptionxvii, 231 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
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Subjects
Islam--Relations. --Christianity.
Christianity and other religions--Islam.
Religious thought--Europe.
Religious thought--Middle Ages, 600-1500.
Middle Ages--Historiography.
Islam--Controversial literature.
Middle East--Relations. --Europe.
Europe--Relations. --Middle East.

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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. [201]-221) and index.
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LCCN 2007042547
ISBN9780813032221 (alk. paper)
ISBN0813032229 (alk. paper)