Interactions in the Medieval Middle East
by
James Montgomery, Anna Akasoy, Peter E. Pormann
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2007
Islam as a cultural, intellectual, and religious venture appears in the popular imagination as a monolithic entity. Orientalists of the traditional ilk have tended to describe it in essentialist terms, whilst many fundamentalist Muslims themselves promote their construction of a pure and unadulterated...