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Arabic-Islamic Views of the Latin West - Tracing the Emergence of Medieval Europe (Hardcover)
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Arabic-Islamic Views of the Latin West - Tracing the Emergence of Medieval Europe (Hardcover)
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Arabic-Islamic Views of the Latin West provides an insight into how
the Arabic-Islamic world perceived medieval Western Europe in an
age that is usually associated with the rise and expansion of
Islam, the Spanish Reconquista, and the Crusades. Previous
scholarship has maintained that the Arabic-Islamic world regarded
Western Europe as a cultural backwater at the periphery of
civilization that clung to a superseded religion. It holds mental
barriers imposed by Islam responsible for the Muslim world's
arrogant and ignorant attitude towards its northern neighbours.
This study refutes this view by focussing on the mechanisms of
transmission and reception that characterized the flow of
information between both cultural spheres. By explaining how
Arabic-Islamic scholars acquired and processed data on medieval
Western Europe, it traces the two-fold 'emergence' of
Latin-Christian Europe - a sphere that increasingly encroached upon
the Mediterranean and therefore became more and more important in
Arabic-Islamic scholarly literature. Chapter One questions previous
interpretations of related Arabic-Islamic records that reduce a
large and differentiated range of Arabic-Islamic perceptions to a
single basic pattern subsumed under the keywords 'ignorance',
'indifference', and 'arrogance'. Chapter Two lists channels of
transmission by means of which information on the Latin-Christian
sphere reached the Arabic-Islamic sphere. Chapter Three deals with
the general factors that influenced the reception and presentation
of this data at the hands of Arabic-Islamic scholars. Chapters Four
to Eight analyse how these scholars acquired and dealt with
information on themes such as the western dimension of the Roman
Empire, the Visigoths, the Franks, the papacy and, finally, Western
Europe in the age of Latin-Christian expansionism. Against this
background, Chapter Nine provides a concluding re-evaluation.
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