Muslim And Christian Contact In The Middle Ages

Author : Jarbel Rodriguez
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2015-01-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781442604247

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Muslim and Christian Contact in the Middle Ages by Jarbel Rodriguez Pdf

To study the interactions between Muslims and Christians in the medieval period is to observe a history of conflict and co-existence encompassing warfare, piracy, and raiding as well as commerce, intellectual exchanges, and personal relationships that transcended religious differences. With particular focus on the Mediterranean world, this collection of more than 80 readings includes sources from Byzantine, Jewish, Muslim, and Latin Christian authors that explore the conflicts and contacts between Muslims and Christians from the seventh to the fifteenth century. Jarbel Rodriguez has selected geographically diverse readings and multiple sources on the same event or topic so that readers gain a better understanding of the relationship that existed between Muslims and Christians in the Middle Ages.

Author : Michael Frassetto
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 45,7 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 : Charles L. Cohen
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 175 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2020-01-08
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780190654344

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The Abrahamic Religions: a Very Short Introduction by Charles L. Cohen Pdf

In the book of Genesis, God bestows a new name upon Abram--Abraham, a father of many nations. With this name and his Covenant, Abraham would become the patriarch of three of the world's major religions: Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. Connected by their mutual--if differentiated--veneration of the One God proclaimed by Abraham, these traditions share much beyond their origins in the ancient Israel of the Old Testament. This Very Short Introduction explores the intertwined histories of these monotheistic religions, from the emergence of Christianity and Islam to the violence of the Crusades and the cultural exchanges of al-Andalus. Each religion continues to be shaped by this history but has also reacted to the forces of modernity and politics. Movements such as the Reformation and that led by seventh-century Kharijites have emerged, intentioned to reform or restore traditional religious practice but quite different in their goals and effects. Relationships with states, among them Israel and Saudi Arabia, have also figured importantly in their development. The Abrahamic Religions: A Very Short Introduction brings these traditions together into a common narrative, lending much needed context to the story of Abraham and his descendants. ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable.

Author : Jarbel Rodriguez
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 457 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2024-06-02
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781442600669

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Muslim and Christian Contact in the Middle Ages by Jarbel Rodriguez Pdf

Author : Stephen O'Shea
Publisher : D & M Publishers
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2012-01-06
Category : History
ISBN : 1926685792

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Sea of Faith by Stephen O'Shea Pdf

From the best-selling author of The Perfect Heresy, and in the spirit of Barbara Tuchman’s A Distant Mirror, a rich narrative account of the millennium of religious wars that destroyed the Byzantine Empire while shaping the Muslim/Christian conflict that haunts us still. The Medieval Mediterranean was a sea of two faiths: Christianity and Islam. Though bitter rivals, they shared a common history. Here are the epochal moments during that 1000-year struggle: the fall of the Christian Middle East at Yarmuk, Martel’s “wall of ice” at Poitiers, Byzantium’s rout at Manzikert, all the way through to Saladin at Jerusalem, Lazar at Kosovo and the suicidal defence of Malta against the Ottomans. Stephen O’Shea tells a riveting story, which stretches from Syria and Israel to France and Morocco. Today, the two faiths again collide. Sea of Faith is a magnificent work of popular history and a timely reminder of our shared past.

Author : Ragnhild Johnsrud Zorgati
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2012-03-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781136622106

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Pluralism in the Middle Ages by Ragnhild Johnsrud Zorgati Pdf

The challenges of cultural and religious diversity that face European and American societies today are not a new phenomenon. People in the Middle Ages lived in pluralistic societies, and they found highly interesting ways of dealing with religious and cultural diversity. While religious and political authorities commanded people to stick to their kind, some people explored the borderland between religious identities. In medieval Iberia, Christians and Muslims challenged the legal authorities’ prohibitions against crossing religious and cultural boundaries when they engaged in mixed marriages between Muslims and Christians or converted from one religion to the other. By examining the topics of conversion and mixed marriages in legal texts of Muslim and Christian origin, Pluralism in the Middle Ages explores the construction of boundaries as well as the reasons explaining such constructions. It demonstrates that the religious and social boundaries were not static, nor were they similarly defined by Islamic and Christian medieval cultures. Moreover, the book argues that Muslims and Christians in medieval Iberia did not constitute clearly separated groups, since various categories of people haunted the boundaries between them: false converts employing taqiya strategy (taking on an outward Christian identity while practicing Islam in secret), those engaged in mixed marriages or interreligious sexual relations (and their children), and converts, whose conversion may be perceived as sincere or insincere, total or partial.

Author : Ian Christopher Levy,Rita George-Tvrtković,Donald Duclow
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2014-06-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004274761

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Nicholas of Cusa and Islam by Ian Christopher Levy,Rita George-Tvrtković,Donald Duclow Pdf

To explore Christian-Muslim relations at the dawn of the modern age, this book examines Nicholas of Cusa’s seminal works on the Qur’an and world religions. It also considers Muslim responses to Christianity and other Christian writings on Islam.

Author : Nora Berend
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 363 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2001-05-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521651851

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At the Gate of Christendom by Nora Berend Pdf

A study of the status of Jews, Muslims and pagan Turkic nomads in medieval Hungary.

Author : Jacob Lassner,Michael Bonner
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2009-11-19
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780313047091

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Islam in the Middle Ages by Jacob Lassner,Michael Bonner Pdf

In the Middle Ages, a varied and vibrant Islamic culture flourished in all its aspects, from religious institutions to legal and scientific endeavors. Lassner, Reisman, and Bonner detail how all three montheist traditions are linked to the same sacred history. They trace the most current scholarship on the Arabian background to Islam, the prophet's early religious message and its appeal. They the Qur'an and how it would have been understood by the earliest generations of Muslims. How much does historical memory come into play in current depictions of this early era? Beyond religious institutions, Muslim scholars and scientists were vital to both the transmission of knowledge from the Greek civilization and to the uninterrupted progress of science. The authors explore the role that non-Muslim minorities played within this culture and they detail the splits within the Muslim world that continue to this day.

Author : Olivia Remie Constable
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2018-02-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9780812249484

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To Live Like a Moor by Olivia Remie Constable Pdf

To Live Like a Moor traces the many shifts in Christian perceptions of Islam-associated ways of life which took place across the centuries between early Reconquista efforts of the eleventh century and the final expulsions of Spain's converted yet poorly assimilated Morisco population in the seventeenth.

Author : Dr Bruno De Nicola,Dr Sara Nur Yıldız,Dr A C S Peacock
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 453 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2015-04-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781472448637

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Islam and Christianity in Medieval Anatolia by Dr Bruno De Nicola,Dr Sara Nur Yıldız,Dr A C S Peacock Pdf

This volume offers a comparative approach to understanding the spread of Muslim culture in medieval Anatolia. It aims to reassess work in the field since the 1971 classic by Speros Vryonis, The Decline of Hellenism in Asia Minor and the Process of Islamization which treats the process of transformation from a Byzantinist perspective. Essays examine the Christian experience of living under Muslim rule, consider encounters between Christianity and Islam in art and intellectual life, and focus on the process of Islamisation as understood from the Arabic, Persian and Turkish textual evidence.

Author : Luigi Andrea Berto
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 118 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2019-11-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000767339

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Christians and Muslims in Early Medieval Italy by Luigi Andrea Berto Pdf

In the early Middle Ages, Italy became the target of Muslim expansionist campaigns. The Muslims conquered Sicily, ruling there for more than two centuries, and conducted many raids against the Italian Peninsula. During this period, however, Christians and Muslims were not always at war – trade flourished, and travel to the territories of the ‘other’ was not uncommon. By examining how Muslims and Christians perceived each other and how they communicated, this book brings the relationship between Muslims and Christians in early medieval Italy into clearer focus, showing that the followers of the Cross and those of the Crescent were in reality not as ignorant of one another as is commonly believed.

Author : Hava Lazarus-Yafeh
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2014-07-14
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781400862733

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Intertwined Worlds by Hava Lazarus-Yafeh Pdf

Exploring the lively polemics among Jews, Christians, and Muslims during the Middle Ages, Hava Lazarus-Yafeh analyzes Muslim critical attitudes toward the Bible, some of which share common features with both pre-Islamic and early modern European Bible criticism. Unlike Jews and Christians, Muslims did not accept the text of the Bible as divine word, believing that it had been tampered with or falsified. This belief, she maintains, led to a critical approach to the Bible, which scrutinized its text as well as its ways of transmission. In their approach Muslim authors drew on pre-Islamic pagan, Gnostic, and other sectarian writings as well as on Rabbinic and Christian sources. Elements of this criticism may have later influenced Western thinkers and helped shape early modern Bible scholarship. Nevertheless, Muslims also took the Bible to predict the coming of Muhammad and the rise of Islam. They seem to have used mainly oral Arabic translations of the Hebrew Bible and recorded some lost Jewish interpretations. In tracing the connections between pagan, Islamic, and modern Bible criticism, Lazarus-Yafeh demonstrates the importance of Muslim mediation between the ancient world and Europe in a hitherto unknown field. Originally published in 1992. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 441 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2014-03-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004267848

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Jews, Christians and Muslims in Medieval and Early Modern Times by Anonim Pdf

This volume brings together articles on various aspects of cultural, religious, social and commercial interactions between Jews, Christians and Muslims in the medieval and early modern periods.

Author : James M. Powell
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2014-07-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9781400861194

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Muslims Under Latin Rule, 1100-1300 by James M. Powell Pdf

Covering Portugal and Castile in the West to the Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem in the East, this collection focuses on Muslim minorities living in Christian lands during the high Middle Ages, and examines to what extent notions of religious tolerance influenced Muslim-Christian relations. The authors call into question the applicability of modern ideas of toleration to medieval social relations, investigating the situation instead from the standpoint of human experience within the two religious cultures. Whereas this study offers no evidence of an evolution of coherent policy concerning treatment of minorities in these Christian domains, it does reveal how religious ideas and communitarian traditions worked together to blunt the harsh realities of the relations between victors and vanquished. The chapters in this volume include "The Mudejars of Castile and Portugal in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries" by Joseph F. O'Callaghan, "Muslims in the Thirteenth-Century Realms of Aragon: Interactions and Reaction" by Robert I. Burns, S.J., "The End of Muslim Sicily" by David S. H. Abulafia, "The Subjected Muslims of the Frankish Levant" by Benjamin Z. Kedar, and "The Papacy and the Muslim Frontier" by James M. Powell. Originally published in 1990. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.