Arabic-Islamic views of the Latin West [electronic resource] : tracing the emergence of medieval Europe / Daniel G. König.
2015
CB351 .K66 2015eb
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Arabic-Islamic views of the Latin West [electronic resource] : tracing the emergence of medieval Europe / Daniel G. König.
Edition
First edition.
ISBN
9780191800689 (electronic book)
Published
New York : Oxford University Press, 2015.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (xiv, 436 pages)
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10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198737193 doi
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CB351 .K66 2015eb
Dewey Decimal Classification
909.07
Summary
"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neighbors, merely regarding medieval Christian Europe as an uncivilized and hostile cultural backwater clinging to a superseded religion.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.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Table of Contents
Arabic-Islamic records on Latin-Christian Europe
An evolving information landscape (7th-15th centuries)
Scholars at work
Discovery of the Roman West
The Visigoths : history of a conquered people
From the Franks to France
From the Patriarch of Rome to the Pope
The expanding Latin-Christian sphere
A re-evaluation of Arabic-Islamic records on Latin-Christian Europe.
An evolving information landscape (7th-15th centuries)
Scholars at work
Discovery of the Roman West
The Visigoths : history of a conquered people
From the Franks to France
From the Patriarch of Rome to the Pope
The expanding Latin-Christian sphere
A re-evaluation of Arabic-Islamic records on Latin-Christian Europe.