@article{756918,
      author = {König, Daniel},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/756918},
      title = {Arabic-Islamic views of the Latin West tracing the  emergence of medieval Europe / [electronic resource] :},
      abstract = {"Arabic-Islamic Views of the Latin West provides an  insight into how the Arabic-Islamic world perceived  medieval Western Europe in an age that is often associated  with violent Christian-Muslim relations during the rise and  expansion of Islam, the so-called Reconquista, and the  Crusades. A long and dominant scholarly tradition claims  that Muslims of this period held an arrogant and ignorant  attitude towards its northern neighbors, merely regarding  medieval Christian Europe as an uncivilized and hostile  cultural backwater clinging to a superseded religion. The  study nuances this view by focusing on the mechanisms of  transmission and reception that characterized the flow of  information from one sphere to the other. By explaining how  Arabic-Islamic scholars acquired and processed data on  medieval Western Europe, it traces the two-fold 'emergence'  of Latin-Christian Europe--a sphere that increasingly  encroached upon the Mediterranean and therefore became more  and more prominent in Arabic-Islamic scholarly  literature"--Jacket.},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198737193},
      recid = {756918},
      pages = {1 online resource (xiv, 436 pages)},
}