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Arabic-Islamic Views of the Latin West: Tracing the Emergence of Medieval Europe
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Arabic-Islamic Views of the Latin West: Tracing the Emergence of Medieval Europe Hardcover - 2016 - 1st Edition

by Daniel G. Konig


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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Arabic-Islamic world regarded Western Europe as a cultural backwater at the periphery of civilization that clung to a superseded religion.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.

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  • Title Arabic-Islamic Views of the Latin West: Tracing the Emergence of Medieval Europe
  • Author Daniel G. Konig
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition number 1st
  • Edition 1
  • Pages 464
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Oxford University Press, USA, 2015. 452p. Hardback. Arabic-Islamic Views of the Latin West will be a key resource for future scholars interested in medieval
  • Date 2016-01-05
  • Features Bibliography, Index
  • ISBN 9780198737193 / 019873719X
  • Weight 1.85 lbs (0.84 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.3 x 6.2 x 1.3 in (23.62 x 15.75 x 3.30 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: Medieval (500-1453) Studies
    • Cultural Region: Middle Eastern
    • Cultural Region: Western Europe
  • Library of Congress subjects History, Christianity
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2015936183
  • Dewey Decimal Code 940.1

About the author


After studying in Washington D.C., Konigswinter, Cairo, Salamanca, Bonn, and Aleppo, Daniel G. Konig acquired his PhD at the University of Bonn in 2006 with a thesis on the Christianisation of Western Europe. From 2007 to 2011 he worked in Late Antiquity/Early Middle Ages research at the German Historical Institute in Paris where he coordinated a research group on cultural exchange in the medieval Mediterranean. From 2011 to 2014 he worked as a researcher and lecturer at the University of Frankfurt am Main. Since 2014, he has held a start-up professorship for transcultural studies within the area 'Asia and Europe in a Global Context' at the University of Heidelberg.
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