Book Details
Orange Code:92067
Paperback:285 pages
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1. Introduction2. Islam during the Anglo-Saxon period3. Anglo-Saxon contacts with Islam4. Arabs and Arabia in Latin5. Ismaelites and Saracens in Latin6. Arabs, Ismaelites and Saracens in early Anglo-Latin7. Pseudo-Methodius and the sons of Ismael8. Arabs, Ismaelites and Saracens in Old English9. Persisting theories about Saracens in post-Conquest England10. Conclusions
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Katherine Scarfe Beckett is concerned with representations of the Islamic world in Anglo-Saxon England. Using a variety of literary, historical and archaeological evidence, Beckett argues that the first perceptions of Arabs, Ismaelites and Saracens were derived from Christian exegesis. These perceptions preconditioned Western expressions of hostility and superiority towards peoples of the Islamic world, and these received ideas prevailed over actual experience.
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