1st Edition

Saracens and Franks in 12th - 15th Century European and Near Eastern Literature Perceptions of Self and the Other

By Aman Y. Nadhiri Copyright 2016
226 Pages
by Routledge

226 Pages
by Routledge

226 Pages
by Routledge

Saracens and Franks in 12th - 15th Century European and Near Eastern Literature examines the tension between two competing discourses in the medieval Muslim Mediterranean and medieval Christian Europe: one rooted in the desire to understand the world and one's place in it, and another promoting an ethnocentric narrative. To this end, it examines the construction of an image of the Other for... Read more
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Biography

Aman Y. Nadhiri is Assistant Professor of English and Arabic at Johnson C. Smith University, USA.