Writings Against The Saracens

Author : Peter (the Venerable),Peter the Venerable
Publisher : CUA Press
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2016-06-03
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780813228594

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Writings Against the Saracens by Peter (the Venerable),Peter the Venerable Pdf

Peter the Venerable's extensive literary legacy includes poems, a large epistolary collection, and polemical treatises. The first of his four major polemics targeted a Christian heresy, the Petrobrussians (Against the Petrobrusians); the rest took aim at Jews and Saracens. Catholic University of America Press has published his Against the Inveterate Obduracy of the Jews. This present volume will make available in their entirety Peter the Venerable's twin polemics against Islam - A Summary of the entire heresy of the Saracens and Against the sect of the Saracens - as well as related correspondence. These works resulted from a sustained engagement with Islam begun during Peter's journey to Spain in 1142-43. There the abbot commissioned a translation of sources from the Arabic, the so-called Toledan Collection, that include the Letter of a Saracen with a Christian Response (from the Apology of [Ps.] Al-Kindi ); Fables of the Saracens (a potpourri of Islamic hadith traditions); and Robert of Ketton's first Latin translation of the whole of the Qur'an. Thanks to Peter's efforts, from the second half of the twelfth century Christians could acquire a far better understanding of the teachings of Islam, and Peter may rightly be viewed as the initiator of Islamic studies in the West.

Author : Petrus (Cluny, Abt)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Christianity and other religions
ISBN : OCLC:1073751221

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Writings Against the Saracens by Petrus (Cluny, Abt) Pdf

Author : John Victor Tolan
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : History
ISBN : 9780231123334

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Saracens by John Victor Tolan Pdf

Medieval Christian writers distorted the teachings of Islam and caricatured its believers in a variety of ways. This book provides a comprehensive study of Christian polemical responses to Islam in the Middle Ages.

Author : Debra Higgs Strickland
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Art
ISBN : 0691057192

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Saracens, Demons, & Jews by Debra Higgs Strickland Pdf

These images, which reached a broad and socially varied audience across Western Europe, appeared in virtually all artistic media, including illuminated manuscripts, stained glass, sculpture, metalwork, and tapestry.".

Author : Arthur Gilman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 554 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1886
Category : Islamic Empire
ISBN : HARVARD:HXF5XY

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The Saracens by Arthur Gilman Pdf

Author : Simon Ockley
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 518 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1757
Category : Arabs
ISBN : UVA:X000414615

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The History of the Saracens by Simon Ockley Pdf

This edition has a prefixed section on the life of Mohammad by Roger Long.

Author : David M. Freidenreich
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2023-01-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520344716

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Jewish Muslims by David M. Freidenreich Pdf

Uncovering the hidden history of Islamophobia and its surprising connections to the long-standing hatred of Jews. Hatred of Jews and hatred of Muslims have been intertwined in Christian thought since the rise of Islam. In Jewish Muslims, David M. Freidenreich explores the history of this complex, perplexing, and emotionally fraught phenomenon. He makes the compelling case that, then and now, hate-mongers target "them" in an effort to define "us." Analyzing anti-Muslim sentiment in texts and images produced across Europe and the Middle East over a thousand years, the author shows how Christians intentionally distorted reality by alleging that Muslims were just like Jews. They did so not only to justify assaults against Muslims on theological grounds but also to motivate fellow believers to live as "good" Christians. The disdain premodern polemicists expressed for Islam and Judaism was never really about these religions. Rather, they sought to promote their own visions of Christianity—a dynamic that similarly animates portrayals of Muslims and Jews today.

Author : DIANA. DARKE
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 484 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2024
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781911723479

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STEALING FROM THE SARACENS by DIANA. DARKE Pdf

Author : Ameer Ali
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 709 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2013-10-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781136198946

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Short History Of The Saracens by Ameer Ali Pdf

First published in 2008. Written by a barrister and Muslim who also authored the well-known book The Spirit of Islam, this is an unusual and indispensable history of the Saracens, a people who left behind them a great legacy and incredible intellectual wealth. The history of the Saracens is also the history of the spread of Islam. This work chronicles the rise and decline of Saracen power and of the economic, social and intellectual development of the Arab nations.

Author : Mary Boyle
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781843845805

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Writing the Jerusalem Pilgrimage in the Late Middle Ages by Mary Boyle Pdf

What do the bursar of Eton College, a canon of Mainz Cathedral, a young knight from near Cologne, and a Kentish nobleman's chaplain have in common? Two Germans, residents of the Holy Roman Empire, and two Englishmen, just as the western horizons of the known world were beginning to expand. These four men - William Wey, Bernhard von Breydenbach, Arnold von Harff, and Thomas Larke - are amongst the thousands of western Christians who undertook the arduous journey to the Holy Land in the decades immediately before the Reformation. More importantly, they are members of a much more select group: those who left written accounts of their travels, for the journey to Jerusalem in the late Middle Ages took place not only in the physical world, but also in the mind and on the page. Pilgrim authors contended in different ways with the collision between fifteenth-century reality and the static textual Jerusalem, as they encountered the genuinely multi-religious Middle East. This book examines the international literary phenomenon of the Jerusalem pilgrimage through the prism of these four writers. It explores the process of collective and individual identity construction, as pilgrims came into contact with members of other religious traditions in the course of the expression of their own; engages with the uneasy relationship between curiosity and pilgrimage; and investigates both the relevance of genre and the advent of print to the development of pilgrimage writing. Ultimately pilgrimage is revealed as a conceptual space with a near-liturgical status, unrestricted by geographical boundaries and accessible both literally and virtually.

Author : Siobhain Bly Calkin
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2013-11-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781135471644

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Saracens and the Making of English Identity by Siobhain Bly Calkin Pdf

This book explores the ways in which discourses of religious, racial, and national identity blur and engage each other in the medieval West. Specifically, the book studies depictions of Muslims in England during the 1330s and argues that these depictions, although historically inaccurate, served to enhance and advance assertions of English national identity at this time. The book examines Saracen characters in a manuscript renowned for the variety of its texts, and discusses hagiographic legends, elaborations of chronicle entries, and popular romances about Charlemagne, Arthur, and various English knights. In these texts, Saracens engage issues such as the demarcation of communal borders, the place of gender norms and religion in communities' self-definitions, and the roles of violence and history in assertions of group identity. Texts involving Saracens thus serve both to assert an English identity, and to explore the challenges involved in making such an assertion in the early fourteenth century when the English language was regaining its cultural prestige, when the English people were increasingly at odds with their French cousins, and when English, Welsh, and Scottish sovereignty were pressing matters.

Author : Marcus Graham Bull,Damien Kempf
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : History
ISBN : 9781843839200

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Writing the Early Crusades by Marcus Graham Bull,Damien Kempf Pdf

The First Crusade (1095-1101) was the stimulus for a substantial boom in Western historical writing in the first decades of the twelfth century, beginning with the so-called "eyewitness" accounts of the crusade and extending to numerous second-hand treatments in prose and verse. From the time when many of these accounts were first assembled in printed form by Jacques Bongars in the early seventeenth century, and even more so since their collective appearance in the great nineteenth-century compendium of crusade texts, the Recueil des historiens des croisades, narrative histories have come to be regarded as the single most important resource for the academic study of the early crusade movement. But our understanding of these texts is still far from satisfactory. This ground-breaking volume draws together the work of an international team of scholars. It tackles the disjuncture between the study of the crusades and the study of medieval history-writing, setting the agenda for future research into historical narratives about or inspired by crusading. The basic premise that informs all the papers is that narrative accounts of crusades and analogous texts should not be primarily understood as repositories of data that contribute to a reconstruction of events, but as cultural artefacts that can be interrogated from a wide range of theoretical, methodological and thematic perspectives. MARCUS BULL is Andrew W. Mellon Distinguished Professor of Medieval and Early Modern Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; DAMIEN KEMPF is Senior Lecturer in Medieval History at the University of Liverpool. Contributors: Laura Ashe, Steven Biddlecombe, Marcus Bull, Peter Frankopan, Damian Kempf, James Naus, L an N Chl irigh, Nicholas Paul, William J. Purkis, Luigi Russo, Jay Rubenstein, Carol Sweetenham,

Author : Anthony Bale
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2019-01-03
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781108474511

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The Cambridge Companion to the Literature of the Crusades by Anthony Bale Pdf

This volume offers a literary and cultural history of the idea of crusading over the last millennium.

Author : Katharine Scarfe Beckett
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 46,6 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 : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 548 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1882
Category : Alps
ISBN : UFL:31262098765265

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The Alpine Journal by Anonim Pdf