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Europe and the Islamic world : a history /

"Europe and the Islamic World sheds much-needed light on the shared roots of Islamic and Western cultures and on the richness of their inextricably intertwined histories, refuting once and for all the misguided notion of a "clash of civilizations" between the Muslim world and Europe....

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autores principales: Tolan, John Victor, 1959- (Autor), Veinstein, Gilles (Autor), Laurens, Henry, 1954- (Autor)
Otros Autores: Todd, Jane Marie, 1957- (Traductor), Esposito, John L. (writer of foreword.)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Francés
Publicado: Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [2013]
Colección:ACLS Humanities E-Book.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Foreword / John L. Esposito
  • General introduction
  • part 1. Saracens and Ifranj: rivalries, emulation, and convergences / John Tolan. The geographers' world: from Arabia Felix to the Balad al-Ifranj (Land of the Franks) ; Conquest and its justifications: jihad, crusade, Reconquista ; The social inferiority of religious minorities: Dhimmis and Mudejars ; In search of Egyptian gold: traders in the Mediterranean ; On the shoulders of giants: transmission and exchange of knowledge
  • part 2. The great Turk and Europe / Gilles Veinstein. The Ottoman conquest in Europe ; Ottoman Europe: an ancient fracture ; Antagonistic figures ; The Islamic-Christian border in Europe ; Breaches in the Conflict
  • part 3. Europe and the Muslim world in the contemporary period / Henry Laurens. The eighteenth century as turning point ; Civilization or conquest? ; The age of reform ; The age of empire ; The first blows to European domination ; The Great War and the beginning of emancipation ; Contemporary issues.