Western Views Of Islam In Medieval And Early Modern Europe
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Western Views Of Islam In Medieval And Early Modern Europe
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Author : M. Frassetto
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 1999-12-09
Western Views Of Islam In Medieval And Early Modern Europe written by M. Frassetto and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999-12-09 with History categories.
Western Views of Islam in Medieval and Early Modern Europe considers the various attitudes of European religious and secular writers towards Islam during the Middle Ages and Early Modern Period. Examining works from England, France, Italy, the Holy Lands, and Spain, the essays in this volume explore the reactions of Westerners to the culture and religion of Islam. Many of the works studied reveal the hostility toward Islam of Europeans and the creation of negative stereotypes of Muslims by Western writers. These essays also reveal attempts at accommodation and understanding that stand in contrast to the prevailing hostility that existed then and, in some ways, exists still today.
Western Views Of Islam In The Middle Ages
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Author : Richard William Southern
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge : Harvard University Press
Release Date : 1962
Western Views Of Islam In The Middle Ages written by Richard William Southern and has been published by Cambridge : Harvard University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1962 with History categories.
Lezingen, gehouden voor de Harvard universiteit in 1961
Arabs And Arabists
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Author : Alastair Hamilton
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2021-11-08
Arabs And Arabists written by Alastair Hamilton and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-11-08 with History categories.
Arabs and Arabists contains nineteen selected articles by Alastair Hamilton on the Western acquisition of knowledge of the Arab and Ottoman world in the early modern period. The first essays are on Arabs who visited Europe and gave instruction to Western Arabists, and on Europeans who either visited the Arab (or the Ottoman) world in search of manuscripts and information or who, like Franciscus Raphelengius, Isaac Casaubon and Adriaen Reland, studied it at a distance and remained in the West. These are followed by a section on the actual study of the Arabic language in Europe, and above all the creation of the first Arabic-Latin dictionaries, and another on the European study of Islam and Western translations of the Qur’an.
Representations Of Islam In Travel Literature In Early Modern England
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Author : Adam Galamaga
language : en
Publisher: GRIN Verlag
Release Date : 2011-05
Representations Of Islam In Travel Literature In Early Modern England written by Adam Galamaga and has been published by GRIN Verlag this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-05 with Islam and literature categories.
Seminar paper from the year 2010 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: gut, University of Frankfurt (Main) (Institut für England- und Amerikastudien), course: Early Modern England & Islam 1560-1640, language: English, abstract: The "troubles" with Islam in today's Europe concerning legal and social issues are accompanied by stereotypical visions of the Islamic world. Stereotypes and prejudices play of course a certain role in every representation or vision of the Other. In regard to Islam they are, however, of a particularly long and rich history. Already after one century from its emergence Islam was seen as a danger to Christianity. John of Damascus granted already in 8th century a complete, though totally ignorant view of the Muslim civilization. Muhammad was depicted by him as an Antichrist and he declared Islam to be a conspiracy against Christianity. The medieval reception of Islam is shown very accurately in the famous Divina Comedia by Dante, where the reader finds Mohammed placed nowhere else but in hell: "(...) see how Mahomet is mangled! Before he goes Ali in tears, his face cleft from chin to forelock; and all the others thou seest here were in life sowers of scandal and schism and therefore are thus cloven". Untrue and unfair depictions of Islam in Europe are found in Catholic theology by Thomas Aquinas, who is still regarded by the Church as its most prominent philosopher. Ignorance about Islam may seem understandable as far as fear of religious challenge is concerned, since many critics of Islam felt it was their duty to defend the truth about God. Many of them depicted the Muslim culture in a completely wrong way because of the very fact that they had never been in real contact with that culture. More detailed investigations about what was behind the teachings would, however, needed to be based on direct encounter. Accounts on Islam based on personal experience would have been then at least more objective and
Medieval Iberia
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Author : Ivy A. Corfis
language : en
Publisher: Tamesis Books
Release Date : 2007
Medieval Iberia written by Ivy A. Corfis and has been published by Tamesis Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with Literary Criticism categories.
An exploration of the cultural-political complexity of the medieval Peninsula.
Arabic Islamic Views Of The Latin West
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Author : Daniel G. König
language : en
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Release Date : 2015-11-05
Arabic Islamic Views Of The Latin West written by Daniel G. König and has been published by OUP Oxford this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-11-05 with History categories.
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 usually associated with the rise and expansion of Islam, the Spanish Reconquista, and the Crusades. Previous scholarship has maintained that the Arabic-Islamic world regarded Western Europe as a cultural backwater at the periphery of civilization that clung to a superseded religion. It holds mental barriers imposed by Islam responsible for the Muslim world's arrogant and ignorant attitude towards its northern neighbours. This study refutes this view by focussing on the mechanisms of transmission and reception that characterized the flow of information between both cultural spheres. 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 important in Arabic-Islamic scholarly literature. Chapter One questions previous interpretations of related Arabic-Islamic records that reduce a large and differentiated range of Arabic-Islamic perceptions to a single basic pattern subsumed under the keywords 'ignorance', 'indifference', and 'arrogance'. Chapter Two lists channels of transmission by means of which information on the Latin-Christian sphere reached the Arabic-Islamic sphere. Chapter Three deals with the general factors that influenced the reception and presentation of this data at the hands of Arabic-Islamic scholars. Chapters Four to Eight analyse how these scholars acquired and dealt with information on themes such as the western dimension of the Roman Empire, the Visigoths, the Franks, the papacy and, finally, Western Europe in the age of Latin-Christian expansionism. Against this background, Chapter Nine provides a concluding re-evaluation.
Faces Of Muhammad
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Author : John Tolan
language : en
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Release Date : 2019-06-11
Faces Of Muhammad written by John Tolan and has been published by Princeton University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-06-11 with History categories.
Heretic and impostor or reformer and statesman? The contradictory Western visions of Muhammad In European culture, Muhammad has been vilified as a heretic, an impostor, and a pagan idol. But these aren’t the only images of the Prophet of Islam that emerge from Western history. Commentators have also portrayed Muhammad as a visionary reformer and an inspirational leader, statesman, and lawgiver. In Faces of Muhammad, John Tolan provides a comprehensive history of these changing, complex, and contradictory visions. Starting from the earliest calls to the faithful to join the Crusades against the “Saracens,” he traces the evolution of Western conceptions of Muhammad through the Reformation, the Enlightenment, and the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and up to the present day. Faces of Muhammad reveals a lengthy tradition of positive portrayals of Muhammad that many will find surprising. To Reformation polemicists, the spread of Islam attested to the corruption of the established Church, and prompted them to depict Muhammad as a champion of reform. In revolutionary England, writers on both sides of the conflict drew parallels between Muhammad and Oliver Cromwell, asking whether the prophet was a rebel against legitimate authority or the bringer of a new and just order. Voltaire first saw Muhammad as an archetypal religious fanatic but later claimed him as an enemy of superstition. To Napoleon, he was simply a role model: a brilliant general, orator, and leader. The book shows that Muhammad wears so many faces in the West because he has always acted as a mirror for its writers, their portrayals revealing more about their own concerns than the historical realities of the founder of Islam.
Empires Of Islam In Renaissance Historical Thought
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Author : Margaret Meserve
language : en
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date : 2008-02-28
Empires Of Islam In Renaissance Historical Thought written by Margaret Meserve and has been published by Harvard University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-02-28 with History categories.
Drawing on political oratory, diplomatic correspondence, crusade propaganda, and historical treatises, Meserve shows how research into the origins of Islamic empires sprang from—and contributed to—contemporary debates over the threat of Islamic expansion in the Mediterranean.
Western Views Of Islam In The Middle Ages
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Author : R.W. Southern
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1978
Western Views Of Islam In The Middle Ages written by R.W. Southern and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1978 with categories.
Islam And The West
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Author : Norman Daniel
language : en
Publisher: Oneworld Publications
Release Date : 2009-01-13
Islam And The West written by Norman Daniel and has been published by Oneworld Publications this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-01-13 with Religion categories.
This classic study by Norman Daniel explores the political and religious considerations behind distorted western views of Islam, examining Christian-Muslim interaction from medieval times to the modern world. First published over 30 years ago, the message within this great scholarly achievement is more relevant today than ever before. This timeless and accessible book should be of interest to students and for anyone wishing to gain a deeper insight into the complex relations between two of the world’s greatest religions.