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| #1249122 in Books | 2002-06-15 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 9.10 x.88 x6.20l,1.20 | File type: PDF | 400 pages||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| Elegant, thorough, and substantive investigation of a complex topic|By A. J. Morris|Tolan's _Saracens_ and his follow-up, _Sons of Ishmael_, are sophisticated, meticulous, and elegant investigations into a complex and shifting collective of medieval attitudes, texts, and sources. His preference for utilizing less-regularly cited primary documents is a marvelous gift, and he re||A significant contribution to the study of Islam's place in the medieval Christian imagination, this work is highly recommended. (Choice)
Tolan's book is welcome as a rare systematic treatment of medieval Christian attitudes toward Muslims...
In the first century of Islam, most of the former Christian Roman Empire, from Syria to Spain, was brought under Muslim control in a conquest of unprecedented proportions. Confronted by the world of Islam, countless medieval Christians experienced a profound ambivalence, awed by its opulence, they were also troubled by its rival claims to the spiritual inheritance of Abraham and Jesus and humiliated by its social subjugation of non-Muslim minorities. Some converted. Othe...
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