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Cookie akzeptierenMarica Costigliolo
The Western Perception of Islam between the Middle Ages and the Renaissance
- Pickwick Publications
- 2017
- Taschenbuch
- 180 Seiten
- ISBN 9781498208192
In the Middle Ages, as Christian sources on the Islamic world show, Muslim culture was perceived as extremely threatening: there were many defenses of Christianity, like the treatise on the ""mistakes"" of the followers of Allah. This book shows, through an analysis of the works of Nicholas of Cusa and of other authors, that in the course of time this textual attitude was modified, as European authors aimed to point out the Christian truth in comparison with the ""falsity"" of Islamic theology, in order to reinforce Christian identity through the presupposition of its own absolute truth. The apologetic aim was gradually replaced by a systematic comparison
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