Arabic-Islamic views of the Latin West [electronic resource] : tracing the emergence of medieval Europe / Daniel G. König.

First edition.

9780191800689 (electronic book)

New York : Oxford University Press, 2015.

English

1 online resource (xiv, 436 pages)

10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198737193 doi

CB351 .K66 2015eb

909.07

"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neighbors, merely regarding medieval Christian Europe as an uncivilized and hostile cultural backwater clinging to a superseded religion.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.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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