The christian-muslim coexistence in a globalized world is one of the major topics in our societies. Is it possible to have a beneficial cohabitation or are the cultural and religious gaps to deep? This book is dealing with the fundament of a multireligous Europe by analysing the christian-european perception of the Muslims and Islam in the Early Middle Ages with a special focus on when and why concepts of enemy emerged and what kind of images existed beyond that. Therefore this study concentrates on the genre of historiographical texts to ask which place the Muslims could generally inherit in a history that was written by Christians and shaped by their worldview. After all the Christians understood themselves as Gods chosen people. And what about a constantly emphasized antagonism between the Christian and Muslim world which necessarily needed to end in the crusades? Is it really possible to speak of a linear developing polarity between two religious groups from the time the Muslims became one of the great political powers in Europe? This book gives answers to these and other questions and by doing so contributes to one of the big scientific areas of medieval history, in which previous studies had a too determined focus on specifically the concepts of enemy, which this study is trying to contextualize.
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