Sons of Ishmael : Muslims through European eyes in the Middle Ages /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Tolan, John Victor, 1959-
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Gainesville : University Press of Florida, [2008]
Subjects:	Islam > Controversial literature. Middle Ages > Historiography. Religious thought > Middle Ages, 600-1500. Religious thought > Europe. Christianity and other religions > Islam. Islam > Relations > Christianity. Europe > Relations > Middle East. Middle East > Relations > Europe. Electronic books.
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Table of 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.