Europe and the Islamic world : a history / John Tolan, Gilles Veinstein, and Henry Laurens; translated by Jane Marie Todd With a Foreword by John L. Esposito.

  • Tolan, John Victor, 1959-
Date:
2013
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Princeton, New Jersey ; Woodstock, Oxfordshire : Princeton University Press, 2013.

Physical description

xiii, 478 pages : Grayscale Illustration ; 24 cm

Notes

Published by Princeton University Press.
Henry Laurens's name appears first on the original French ed.
Cet ouvrage publié dans le cadre du programme d'aide á la publication bénéficie du soutien du Ministère des Affaires Etrangères et du Service Culturel de l'Ambassade de France représenté aux Etats-Unis.
This work received support from the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Cultural Services of the French Embassy in the United States through their publishing assistance program.
This book has been composed in Minion Pro.
Printed on acid-free paper.
Printed in the United States of America.

Contents

Saracens and Ifranj: Rivalries, Emulation, and Convergences -- The Great Turk and Europe -- Europe and the Muslim World in the Contemporary Period.
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 -- The Ottoman Conquest in Europe -- Ottoman Europe: An Ancient Fracture -- Antagonistic Figures -- The Islamic-Christian Border in Europe -- Breaches in the Conflict -- 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.

Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Reproduction note

Electronic text and image data. Ann Arbor, Mich. : University of Michigan, Michigan Publishing, 2019. EPUB file. ([ACLS Humanities E-Book])

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  • 9780691147055
  • 9781400844753