Renaissance humanists believed that the origins of peoples could
reveal crucial facts about their modern political character.
Margaret Meserve explores what happened when European historians
turned to study the political history of a faith other than their
own.
Meserve investigates the methods and illuminates the motives of
scholars negotiating shifting boundaries--between scholarly
research and political propaganda, between a commitment to critical
historical inquiry and the pressure of centuries of classical and
Christian prejudice, between the academic ideals of humanism and
the everyday demands of political patronage. Drawing on political
oratory, diplomatic correspondence, crusade propaganda, and
historical treatises, Meserve shows how research into the origins
of Islamic empires sprang from--and contributed to--contemporary
debates over the threat of Islamic expansion in the Mediterranean.
Humanist histories of the Turks were sharply polemical, portraying
the Ottomans as a rogue power. But writings on other Muslim
polities include some of the first positive appraisals of Muslim
statecraft in the European tradition.
This groundbreaking book offers new insights into Renaissance
humanist scholarship and the long-standing European debates over
the relationship between Christianity and Islam.
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