This text considers the various attitudes of European religious and secular writers towards Islam during the Middle Ages and early modern period. Examining works from England, France, Italy, the Holy Lands, and Spain, the essays explore the reactions of Westerners to the culture and religion of Islam. Many of the works studied reveal the hostility toward Islam of Europeans and the creation of negative stereotypes of Muslims by Western writers. They also reveal attempts at accommodation and understanding that stands in contrast to the prevailing hostility that existed then and, in some ways, exists still today.
- ISBN10 0312218915
- ISBN13 9780312218911
- Publish Date 10 December 1999
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 2 June 2021
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Palgrave MacMillan
- Edition 1999 ed.
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 256
- Language English