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      Faces of Muhammad

      John Tolan

      Heretic and impostor or reformer and statesman? The contradictory Western visions of MuhammadIn European culture, Muhammad has been vilified as a heretic, an impostor, and a pagan idol. But these…

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      Geneses: A Comparative Study of the Historiographies of the Rise of Christianity, Rabbinic Judaism, and Islam

      Geneses: A Comparative Study of the Historiographies of the Rise of Christianity, Rabbinic Judaism, and Islam represents an important contribution and a valuable resource to the burgeoning field of comparative…

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      Geneses: A Comparative Study of the Historiographies of the Rise of Christianity, Rabbinic Judaism, and Islam

      Geneses: A Comparative Study of the Historiographies of the Rise of Christianity, Rabbinic Judaism, and Islam represents an important contribution and a valuable resource to the burgeoning field of comparative…

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      Faces of Muhammad: Western Perceptions of the Prophet of Islam from the Middle Ages to Today

      John Tolan

      Heretic and impostor or reformer and statesman? The contradictory Western visions of Muhammad In European culture, Muhammad has been vilified as a heretic, an impostor, and a pagan idol. But…

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      England’s Jews: Finance, Violence, and the Crown in the Thirteenth Century

      John Tolan

      In 1290, Jews were expelled from England and subsequently largely expunged from English historical memory. Yet for two centuries they occupied important roles in medieval English society. England's Jews revisits…

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      Saracens: Islam in the Medieval European Imagination

      John Victor Tolan

      Medieval Christian writers distorted the teachings of Islam and caricatured its believers in a variety of ways. What ideological purposes did these offensive portrayals serve? This book provides a comprehensive…

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      Saracens: Islam in the Medieval European Imagination

      John Victor Tolan

      Medieval Christian writers distorted the teachings of Islam and caricatured its believers in a variety of ways. What ideological purposes did these offensive portrayals serve? This book provides a comprehensive…

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      Medieval Christian Perceptions of Islam: A Book of Essays

      These fifteen original essays focus on unfamiliar texts that reflect the wide range of medieval Christianity’s preoccupation with Islam.

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      Sons of Ishmael: Muslims through European Eyes in the Middle Ages

      John V. Tolan

      Sons of Ishmael is the epithet that many Christian writers of the Middle Ages gave to Muslims. This title focuses on the history of conflict and convergence between Latin Christendom…

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      The Latin Qur'an, 1143-1500: Translation, Transition, Interpretation

      In 1143 Robert of Ketton produced the first Latin translation of the Qur'an, an important way in which Latin European readers had access to the Muslim holy book. The translations…

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      Expulsion and Diaspora Formation: Religious and Ethnic Identities in Flux from Antiquity to the Seventeenth Century

      The eleven essays brought together in this volume explore the relations between expulsion, diaspora, and exile between Late Antiquity and the seventeenth century. The essays range from Hellenistic Egypt to…

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      Europe and the Islamic World: A History

      John Victor Tolan,Henry Laurens,Gilles Veinstein

      Focuses 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…

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      Saint Francis and the Sultan: The Curious History of a Christian-Muslim Encounter

      John V. Tolan (Professor of History, University of Nantes)

      In September, 1219, Francis of Assisi went to Egpyt to preach to Sultan al-Malik al-Kamil. John Tolan examines the varying depictions of this brief but highly significant meeting and how…

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      Law and Religious Minorities in Medieval Societies: Between Theory and Praxis: de la Teoria Legal a la Practica En El Derecho de Las Minoria Religiosas En La Edad Media

      Muslim law developed a clear legal cadre for dhimmis, inferior but protected non-Muslim communities (in particular Jews and Christians) and Roman Canon law decreed a similar status for Jewish and…

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      Europe and the Islamic World: A History

      John Tolan,Henry Laurens,Gilles Veinstein

      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…

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      Jews and Christians in Medieval Europe: The Historiographical Legacy of Bernhard Blumenkranz

      The name of Bernhard Blumenkranz is well known to all those who study the history of European Jews in the Middle Ages and in particular the history of Jewish-Christian relations…

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      Radiology of the Post Surgical Abdomen

      A comprehensive description of the most common abdominal operations involving the gastrointestinal tract, pancreas, liver and genitourinary systems, illustrated with artists’ drawings and images of normal post operative anatomy.

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      Radiology of the Post Surgical Abdomen

      A comprehensive description of the most common abdominal operations involving the gastrointestinal tract, pancreas, liver and genitourinary systems, illustrated with artists’ drawings and images of normal post operative anatomy.

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      Religious Minorities, Integration and the State: Etat, Minorites Religieuses Et Integration

      Judaisme, christianisme, islam ont en Europe une histoire millenaire. Ces monotheismes se differencient par leur poids respectif, par les moments de leur inscription sur le continent et par leurs inegaux…

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      Religious Minorities in Christian, Jewish and Muslim Law (5th - 15th Centuries)

      The fruit of a sustained and close collaboration between historians, linguists and jurists working on the Christian, Muslim and Jewish societies of the Middle Ages, this book explores the theme…

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      Georgetown Journal of International Affairs: Summer/Fall 2017, Volume 18, No. 2

      The Georgetown Journal of International Affairs is the official publication of the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University. Founded to serve as an academic resource for…

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