TY  - BOOK
AU  - Meserve,Margaret
TI  - Empires of Islam in Renaissance historical thought
T2  - Harvard historical studies
SN  - 9780674040953
AV  - DR438.8 .M43 2008eb
U1  - 956/.015072 22
PY  - 2008///
CY  - Cambridge, Mass.
PB  - Harvard University Press
KW  - Historiography
KW  - Europe
KW  - History
KW  - To 1500
KW  - HISTORY
KW  - General
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - fast
KW  - Turkey
KW  - Ottoman Empire, 1288-1918
KW  - Islamic Empire
KW  - Empire ottoman
KW  - Histoire
KW  - Empire islamique
KW  - Historiographie
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 259-341) and index; Note on nomenclature -- List of figures -- Introduction -- The rise and fall of the Trojan Turks -- Barbarians at the gates -- In search of the classical Turks -- Translations of empire -- Wise men in the east -- Epilogue -- Appendix: The Caspian gates -- Abbreviations -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index
N2  - Drawing on political oratory, diplomatic correspondence, crusade propaganda, and historical treatises, Meserve shows how research into the origins of Islamic empires sprang from--and contributed to--contemporary debates over the threat of Islamic expansion in the Mediterranean. This groundbreaking book offers new insights into Renaissance humanist scholarship and long-standing European debates over the relationship between Christianity and Islam
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