Saracens

Saracens
Author: John Victor Tolan
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Total Pages: 401
Release: 2002
Genre: History
ISBN: 0231123337

Medieval Christian writers distorted the teachings of Islam and caricatured its believers in a variety of ways. This book provides a comprehensive study of Christian polemical responses to Islam in the Middle Ages.

A History of Architecture on the Comparative Method for Students, Craftsmen & Amateur;

A History of Architecture on the Comparative Method for Students, Craftsmen & Amateur;
Author: Banister Fletcher
Publisher: Arkose Press
Total Pages: 870
Release: 1901
Genre: Architecture
ISBN:

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Islamic Modernism and the Re-Enchantment of the Sacred in the Age of History

Islamic Modernism and the Re-Enchantment of the Sacred in the Age of History
Author: Monica M. Ringer
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Total Pages: 216
Release: 2020-09-04
Genre: History
ISBN: 147447876X

This book studies the complex relationship of religion to modernity and argues that modernity should be understood as the consequence, not the cause, of the new intellectual landscape of the 19th century. Shows how the adoption of historicism in the 19th century engendered Islamic modernism as a theological reform movement.