König, Daniel G.: Arabic-Islamic Views of the Latin West

Tracing the Emergence of Medieval Europe
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An insight into how the Arabic-Islamic world perceived medieval Western Europe, refuting previous claims that the Muslim world regarded Western Europe as a cultural backwater, and instead arguing for the presence of cultural and information flows between the two very different societies.

ISBN: 978-0-19-873719-3
GTIN: 9780198737193

Über den Autor König, Daniel G.

After studying in Washington D.C., Königswinter, Cairo, Salamanca, Bonn, and Aleppo, Daniel G. König acquired his PhD at the University of Bonn in 2006 with a thesis on the Christianisation of Western Europe. From 2007 to 2011 he worked in Late Antiquity/Early Middle Ages research at the German Historical Institute in Paris where he coordinated a research group on cultural exchange in the medieval Mediterranean. From 2011 to 2014 he worked as a researcher and lecturer at the University of Frankfurt am Main. Since 2014, he has held a start-up professorship for transcultural studies within the area 'Asia and Europe in a Global Context' at the University of Heidelberg.

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