1: Arabic-Islamic Records on Latin-Christian Europe:
Introduction
2: An Evolving Information Landscape, 7th-15th centuries
3: Scholars At Work
4: Discovery of the Roman West
5: The Visigoths: History of a Conquered People
6: From the Franks to France
7: From the Patriarch of Rome to the Pope
8: The Expanding Latin-Christian Sphere
9: Arabic-Islamic Records on Latin-Christian Europe: A
Re-evaluation
Bibliography
Index
After studying in Washington D.C., Königswinter, Cairo, Salamanca,
Bonn, and Aleppo, Daniel G. König acquired his PhD at the
University of Bonn in 2006 with a thesis on the Christianisation of
Western Europe. From 2007 to 2011 he worked in Late Antiquity/Early
Middle Ages research at the German Historical Institute in Paris
where he coordinated a research group on cultural exchange in the
medieval Mediterranean. From 2011 to 2014 he worked as a
researcher
and lecturer at the University of Frankfurt am Main. Since 2014, he
has held a start-up professorship for transcultural studies within
the area 'Asia and Europe in a Global Context' at the University
of
Heidelberg.
König's work marks a major contribution to the historiography of
Christian-Muslim contact in the Middle Ages and constitutes a
valuable collection of research on the history of the Latin West
according to non-Latin sources. ... König's magisterial study helps
us to view the history of intercultural contact in its complexity
rather than reduce it into factitious and self-aggrandizing
generalizations.
*Ryan Szpiech, Der Islam *
Arabic-Islamic Views of the Latin West will be a key resource for
future scholars interested in medieval Muslims' views of their
non-Muslim neighbours.
*Harry Munt, Reviews in History*
The breadth of König's survey is certainly impressive, and the
conclusions he draws are important contributions to scholarship.
And it may also be said that his investigation should be a
necessary reference for future scholarship within the field ...
König provides a much needed systematic investigation that
convincingly and robustly traces the emergence of medieval Europe
in the minds of medieval Arabic-Islamic thinkers. Establishing this
process of emergence in itself is an indispensible contribution to
scholarship, as it overturns some of the most misleading assertions
that have shaped the study of this subject in the past.
*Eyad Abuali, Americal Journal of Islamic Social Sciences*
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