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In the summer of 972 a group of Muslim brigands based in the south of France near La Garde-Freinet abducted the abbot of Cluny as he and his entourage crossed the Alps en route from Rome to Burgundy. Ultimately, the abbot was set free and returned home safely, but the audacity of this abduction outraged Christian leaders and galvanized the will of local lords. Shortly thereafter, Count William of Arles marshaled an army and succeeded in wiping out the Muslim stronghold. In Cluny and the Muslims of La Garde-Freinet, Scott G. Bruce uses this extraordinary incident, largely overlooked by contemporary scholars, to examine Christian perceptions of Islam in the Middle Ages. The monks of Cluny kept the tale of their abbot's abduction alive over the next century in hagiographical works and chronicles written to promote his sanctity. Bruce explores the telling and retelling of this story, focusing particularly on the representation of Islam in each account, and how that representation changed over time. The culminating figure in this study is Peter the Venerable, one of Europe's leading intellectuals and abbot of Cluny from 1122 to 1156. Remembered today largely for his views of Islam, Peter commissioned Latin translations of Muslim historical and devotional texts including the Qur'an. As Bruce shows, Peter's thinking on Islam had its roots in the hagiographical tradition of the abduction at La Garde-Freinet. In fact, Peter drew from the stories as he crafted a "Muslim policy" relevant to the mid-twelfth century, a time of great anxiety about Islam in the aftermath of the failed Second Crusade. Compellingly written, Cluny and the Muslims of La Garde-Freinet provides us with an unparalleled opportunity to examine Christian perceptions of Islam in the Crusading era.
Christian hagiography --- Christianity and other religions --- Islam --- Muslims --- History --- Relations --- Christianity --- Majolus, --- Peter, --- Cluny (Benedictine abbey) --- Mohammedans --- Moors (People) --- Moslems --- Muhammadans --- Musalmans --- Mussalmans --- Mussulmans --- Mussulmen --- Religious adherents --- Controversial literature --- Maieul, --- Maiolus, --- Mayeul, --- Petrus, --- Peṭrus, --- Pierre le Vénérable, --- Pierre, --- Pietro, --- פטרוס, --- Cluny, France (Benedictine abbey) --- Cluny Abbey --- Abbaye de Cluny --- Abbey of Cluny --- Cluny (France). --- Cluniacs --- History. --- Syncretism (Christianity) --- Religions --- Mohammedanism --- Muhammadanism --- Muslimism --- Mussulmanism --- Early works to 1800. --- Monks, Cluny, Islam, Religious Conversion, Hagiography. --- Christian hagiography - History - To 1500 --- Christianity and other religions - Islam - Early works to 1800 --- Islam - Controversial literature - Early works to 1800 --- Islam - Relations - Christianity - Early works to 1800 --- Muslims - France - La Garde-Freinet - History - To 1500 --- Majolus, - Saint, Abbot of Cluny, - approximately 906-994 --- Peter, - the Venerable, - approximately 1092-1156
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For over four centuries the principal source of Christian European knowledge of Islam stemmed from a project sponsored by Peter the Venerable, ninth abbot of Cluny, in 1142. This consisted of Latin translations of five Arabic works, including the first translation of the Koran in a western language. Known as the Toledan Collection, it was eventually printed in 1543 with an introduction by Martin Luther. The abbot also completed a handbook of Islam beliefs and a major analytical and polemical work, Liber contra sectam Saracenorum; annotated editions of these texts are included in this book. Originally published in 1964.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Islam --- Christianity and other religions --- Relations --- Christianity. --- Islam. --- Peter, --- Petrus, --- Peṭrus, --- Pierre le Vénérable, --- Pierre, --- Pietro, --- פטרוס, --- Abjad. --- Abrahamic religions. --- Adoptionism. --- Adversus Judaeos. --- Al-Battani. --- Al-Biruni. --- Al-Farabi. --- Al-Furqan. --- Al-Kindi. --- Al-Mahdi. --- Al-Masih ad-Dajjal. --- Antipope Anacletus II. --- Apologetics. --- Arabic alphabet. --- Arianism. --- Arnobius. --- Augustine of Hippo. --- Benedict of Nursia. --- Bernard of Clairvaux. --- Bible prophecy. --- Book of Revelation. --- Caliphate. --- Catechism. --- Christian Standard. --- Christian apologetics. --- Christian martyrs. --- Christian republic. --- Christian scripture. --- Christian theology. --- Christianity and Islam. --- Church Fathers. --- David Knowles (scholar). --- Diocletian. --- Disputation. --- Donatism. --- Erudition. --- Gerard of Cremona. --- God in Islam. --- God. --- Gog and Magog. --- Harut and Marut. --- Hegira. --- Heresy in Christianity. --- Heresy. --- Husayn ibn Ali. --- Iconoclasm. --- Islam and the West. --- Islam in Europe. --- Islamic eschatology. --- Islamic literature. --- Jacques Maritain. --- John Calvin. --- John Chrysostom. --- John of Seville. --- Ka'ab al-Ahbar. --- Kafir. --- Liber. --- Manichaeism. --- Marcellus of Ancyra. --- Mohammedan. --- Monarchianism. --- Mozarabs. --- Muawiyah I. --- Muhammad at Mecca. --- Muhammad at Medina (book). --- Muhammad. --- Muslim world. --- Muslim. --- Nestorianism. --- Nestorius. --- Novatianism. --- Old Testament. --- Orosius. --- Paschal. --- Patripassianism. --- Pelagianism. --- Peter the Venerable. --- Pope Gregory I. --- Pope Gregory VII. --- Pope Urban II. --- Predestination in Islam. --- Prudentius. --- Psalms. --- Quran. --- Quraysh. --- Religion. --- Robert of Chester. --- Robert of Ketton. --- Sabellianism. --- Spread of Islam. --- Sunni Islam. --- Tahrif. --- The City of God (book). --- The Sufis. --- Theodicy. --- Theology. --- Umayyad Caliphate. --- Uthman.
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