Anglo-Saxon perceptions of the Islamic world:
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Main Author: Scarfe Beckett, Katharine (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge Cambridge University Press 2003
Series:Cambridge studies in Anglo-Saxon England 33
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Item Description:Includes bibliographical references (pages 244-272) and index
Introduction -- Islam during the Anglo-Saxon period -- Anglo-Saxon contacts with Islam -- Arabs and Arabia in Latin -- Ismaelites and Saracens in Latin -- Arabs, Ismaelites and Saracens in early Anglo-Latin -- Pseudo-Methodius and the sons of Ismael -- Arabs, Ismaelites and Saracens in Old English -- Persisting theories about Saracens in post-Conquest England
Scarfe Beckett is concerned with western representations of the Islamic world in the Anglo-Saxon period. Using a wide variety of literary, historical and archaeological evidence, she argues that the perception of Arabs, Ismaelites and Saracens derived from Christian exegesis preconditioned a hostility towards Islamic peoples which prevailed over actual experience
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (viii, 276 pages)
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