Anglo Saxon Perceptions Of The Islamic World

Author : Katharine Scarfe Beckett
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2003-10-16
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781139440905

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Anglo-Saxon Perceptions of the Islamic World by Katharine Scarfe Beckett Pdf

In this book, Scarfe Beckett is concerned with representations of the Islamic world prevalent in Anglo-Saxon England. Using a wide variety of literary, historical and archaeological evidence, she argues that the first perceptions of Arabs, Ismaelites and Saracens which derived from Christian exegesis preconditioned wester expressions of hostility and superiority towards peoples of the Islamic world, and that these received ideas prevailed even as material contacts increased between England and Muslim territory. Medieval texts invariably represented Muslim Arabs as Saracens and Ismaelites (or Hagarenes), described by Jerome as biblical enemies of the Christian world three centuries before Muhammad's lifetime. Two early ideas in particular - that Saracens worshipped Venus and dissembled their own identity - continued into the early modern period. This finding has interesting implications for earlier theses by Edward Said and Norman Daniel concerning the history of English perceptions of Islam.

Author : Michael Frassetto
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2019-11-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781498577571

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Christians and Muslims in the Middle Ages by Michael Frassetto Pdf

The conflict and contact between Muslims and Christians in the Middle Ages is among the most important but least appreciated developments of the period from the seventh to the fourteenth century. Michael Frassetto argues that the relationship between these two faiths during the Middle Ages was essential to the cultural and religious developments of Christianity and Islam—even as Christians and Muslims often found themselves engaged in violent conflict. Frassetto traces the history of those conflicts and argues that these holy wars helped create the identity that defined the essential characteristics of Christians and Muslims. The polemic works that often accompanied these holy wars was important, Frassetto contends, because by defining the essential evil of the enemy, Christian authors were also defining their own beliefs and practices. Holy war was not the only defining element of the relationship between Christians and Muslims during the Middle Ages, and Frassetto explains that everyday contacts between Christian and Muslim leaders and scholars generated more peaceful relations and shaped the literary, intellectual, and religious culture that defined medieval and even modern Christianity and Islam.

Author : Abdul Monir Yaacob,Ahmad Faiz Abdul Rahman
Publisher : Institute of Islamic Understanding Malaysia
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Religion
ISBN : UOM:39015032222153

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Towards a Positive Islamic World-view by Abdul Monir Yaacob,Ahmad Faiz Abdul Rahman Pdf

Author : Samantha Zacher
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2016-08-04
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781442666290

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Imagining the Jew in Anglo-Saxon Literature and Culture by Samantha Zacher Pdf

Most studies of Jews in medieval England begin with the year 1066, when Jews first arrived on English soil. Yet the absence of Jews in England before the conquest did not prevent early English authors from writing obsessively about them. Using material from the writings of the Church Fathers, contemporary continental sources, widespread cultural stereotypes, and their own imaginations, their depictions of Jews reflected their own politico-theological experiences. The thirteen essays in Imagining the Jew in Anglo-Saxon Literature and Culture examine visual and textual representations of Jews, the translation and interpretation of Scripture, the use of Hebrew words and etymologies, and the treatment of Jewish spaces and landmarks. By studying the “imaginary Jews” of Anglo-Saxon England, they offer new perspectives on the treatment of race, religion, and ethnicity in pre- and post-conquest literature and culture.

Author : Nicole Guenther Discenza
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2017-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781487500658

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Inhabited Spaces by Nicole Guenther Discenza Pdf

In Inhabited Spaces, Nicole Guenther Discenza examines a variety of Anglo-Latin and Old English texts to shed light on Anglo-Saxon understandings of space.

Author : Sophia Rose Arjana
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780199324927

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Muslims in the Western Imagination by Sophia Rose Arjana Pdf

Islam in the Western imagination -- The Muslim monster -- Medieval Muslim monsters -- Turkish monsters -- The monsters of Orientalism -- Muslim monsters in the Americas -- The monsters of September 11th.

Author : Michelle Karnes
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2022-07-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780226819761

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Medieval Marvels and Fictions in the Latin West and Islamic World by Michelle Karnes Pdf

A cross-cultural study of magical phenomena in the Middle Ages. Marvels like enchanted rings and sorcerers’ stones were topics of fascination in the Middle Ages, not only in romance and travel literature but also in the period’s philosophical writing. Rather than constructions of belief accepted only by simple-minded people, Michelle Karnes shows that these spectacular wonders were near impossibilities that demanded scrutiny and investigation. This is the first book to analyze a diverse set of writings on such wonders, comparing texts from the Latin West—including those written in English, French, Italian, and Castilian Spanish —with those written in Arabic as it works toward a unifying theory of marvels across different disciplines and cultures. Karnes tells a story about the parallels between Arabic and Latin thought, reminding us that experiences of the strange and the unfamiliar travel across a range of genres, spanning geographical and conceptual space and offering an ideal vantage point from which to understand intercultural exchange. Karnes traverses this diverse archive, showing how imagination imbues marvels with their character and power, making them at once enigmatic, creative, and resonant. Skirting the distinction between the real and unreal, these marvels challenge readers to discover the highest capabilities of both nature and the human intellect. Karnes offers a rare comparative perspective and a new methodology to study a topic long recognized as central to medieval culture.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2021-06-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004446038

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Cartography between Christian Europe and the Arabic-Islamic World, 1100-1500 by Anonim Pdf

Cartography between Christian Europe and the Arabic-Islamic World offers a timely assessment of interaction between medieval Christian European and Arabic-Islamic geographical thought, making the case for significant but limited cultural transfer across a range of map genres.

Author : David Clark
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Arthurian romances
ISBN : 9781843842811

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Blood, Sex, Malory by David Clark Pdf

Author : Máire Ní Mhaonaigh,Rory Naismith,Elizabeth Ashman Rowe
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2020-05-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9781786736253

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Writing Battles by Máire Ní Mhaonaigh,Rory Naismith,Elizabeth Ashman Rowe Pdf

Battles have long featured prominently in historical consciousness, as moments when the balance of power was seen to have tipped, or when aspects of collective identity were shaped. But how have perspectives on warfare changed? How similar are present day ideologies of warfare to those of the medieval period? Looking back over a thousand years of British, Irish and Scandinavian battles, this significant collection of essays examines how different times and cultures have reacted to war, considering the changing roles of religion and technology in the experience and memorialisation of conflict. While fighting and killing have been deplored, glorified and everything in between across the ages, Writing Battles reminds us of the visceral impact left on those who come after.

Author : A E Redgate
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2014-03-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317805359

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Religion, Politics and Society in Britain, 800-1066 by A E Redgate Pdf

Using a comparative and broad perspective, Religion, Politics and Society in Britain 800-1066 draws on archaeology, art history, material culture, texts from charms to chronicles, from royal law-codes to sermons to poems, and other evidence to demonstrate the centrality of Christianity and the Church in Britain 800-1066. It delineates their contributions to the changes in politics, economy, society and culture that occurred between 800 and 1066, from nation-building to practicalities of government to landscape. The period 800-1066 saw the beginnings of a fundamental restructuring of politics, society and economy throughout Christian Europe in which religion played a central role. In Britain too the interaction of religion with politics and society was profound and pervasive. There was no part of life which Christianity and the Church did not touch: they affected belief, thought and behaviour at all levels of society. This book points out interconnections within society and between archaeological, art historical and literary evidence and similarities between aspects of culture not only within Britain but also in comparison with Armenian Christendom. A. E. Redgate explores the importance of religious ideas, institutions, personnel and practices in the creation and expression of identities and communities, the structure and functioning of society and the life of the individual. This book will be essential reading for students of early medieval Britain and religious and social history.

Author : Geoffrey Hindley
Publisher : Robinson
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2013-02-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9781472107596

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A Brief History of the Anglo-Saxons by Geoffrey Hindley Pdf

Starting AD 400 (around the time of their invasion of England) and running through to the 1100s (the 'Aftermath'), historian Geoffrey Hindley shows the Anglo-Saxons as formative in the history not only of England but also of Europe. The society inspired by the warrior world of the Old English poem Beowulf saw England become the world's first nation state and Europe's first country to conduct affairs in its own language, and Bede and Boniface of Wessex establish the dating convention we still use today. Including all the latest research, this is a fascinating assessment of a vital historical period.

Author : Peter Darby,Faith Wallis
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2016-04-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317175773

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Bede and the Future by Peter Darby,Faith Wallis Pdf

Bede (c. 673-735) was Anglo-Saxon England’s most prominent scholar, and his body of work is among the most important intellectual achievements of the entire Middle Ages. Bede and the Future brings together an international group of Bede scholars to examine a number of questions about Bede’s attitude towards, and ideas about, the time to come. This encompasses the short-term future (Bede’s own lifetime and the time soon after his death) and the end of time. Whilst recognising that these temporal perspectives may not be completely distinct, the volume shows how Bede’s understanding of their relationship undoubtedly changed over the course of his life. Each chapter examines a distinct aspect of the subject, whilst at the same time complementing the other essays, resulting in a comprehensive and coherent volume. In so doing the volume asks (and answers) new questions about Bede and his ideas about the future, and will undoubtedly stimulate further research in this field.

Author : Syed Furrukh Zad Ali Shah
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
Page : 349 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9783643909138

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Spaces of Engagement by Syed Furrukh Zad Ali Shah Pdf

This study reflects on discourses, politics, and culture of islamophobia with reference to Muslim diaspora communities in a post-migration Western European context. It argues that islamophobia is the product, as well as carries the agency, of Muslim diaspora enclave-exclave phenomenon. These socio-spatial encounters are not to be seen as divisive, but are to be understood as productive to seek to negotiate a transnational multi-cultural public space for integration. It is in this context that this study has sought to relocate European Islamophobia in Muslim diaspora enclaves. Dissertation. (Series: Islam in the Existence of Europe / Islam in der Lebenswelt Europa, Vol. 11) [Subject: Islamic Studies, Middle East Studies, Muslim Studies]

Author : Meenakshi Bharat,Madhu Grover
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2019-11-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789027261908

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Representing the Exotic and the Familiar by Meenakshi Bharat,Madhu Grover Pdf

The multicultural world of today is often said to be marked by a certain kind of exoticization: a “fetishizing process”, as Graham Huggan has called it, which separates a “first world” from a “third world”, the Occident from the Orient. The essays collected here re-assess this tendency, not least by focusing on the kinds of intellectual tourism and dilettantism to which it has given rise. The wider context of these analyses is a postcolonial scenario where literatures and languages can move from the “exotic” to the comparatively “familiar” space of contemporary writings; where an exotic mythos can live on into the familiar present; and where certain perceptions and representations of peoples, of literatures, and of languages have turned exoticization and familiarization into global modes of mass-cultural consumption. Especially by exploring the liminalities between different cultures, this collection manages to trace both the history and the politics of exoticist representation and, in so doing, to make a significant critical intervention.