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Texts from the Middle is a companion primary source reader to the textbook The Sea in the Middle. It can be used alone or in conjunction with the textbook, providing an original history of the Middle Ages that places the Mediterranean at the geographical center of the study of the period from 650 to 1650.
Building on the textbook’s unique approach, these sources center on the Mediterranean and emphasize the role played by peoples and cultures of Africa, Asia, and Europe in an age when Christians, Muslims, and Jews of various denominations engaged with each other in both conflict and collaboration. The supplementary reader mirrors the main text’s fifteen-chapter structure, providing six sources per chapter.
The two texts pair together to provide a framework and materials that guide students through this complex but essential history—one that will appeal to the diverse student bodies of today.
Contents
List of Texts
Acknowledgments
Introduction
PART I. The Helleno-Islamic Mediterranean (650–1050 CE)
1 The Legacy of Empire
1. The Battle of Siffin (657 CE)
2. The Battle of Tours (732 CE)
3. Legends of Women and the Conquest of al-Andalus
4. Toda of Navarre and ꞌAbd al-Rahman III
5. The Emperor, the Caliph, and the Elephant
6. Basil Lakapenos: A Mighty Eunuch
2 Mediterranean Connections
1. Harald Hardradi: A Viking in the Mediterranean
2. Religious Relations in Fatimid Cairo
3. The Calendar of Córdoba
4. Jewish Traders’ Letters from the Cairo Geniza
5. Ibn Fadlan at the Frontiers of the Mediterranean World
3 Conversion and the Consolidation of Identiies
1. Christian Arabization in Muslim Lands
2. Byzantine Iconoclasm
3. The Donation of Constantine
4. Jews in Early Medieval Europe
5. Jewish Communities and Muslim Authorities in the Cairo Geniza
4 Peoples of the Book Reading Their Books
1. Which Is the Bible? Which Is the Qurꞌan?
2. The Problem of Scriptural Translation
3. Studying in Eleventh-Century Iraq and France
4. Hadiths on Fasting, Charity, and the Hajj
5. A Christian and a Muslim Interpret Their Scriptures
6. Plotinus on Beauty and the One
7. Ibn Hazm Critiques the Christian Gospels and Explores the Nature of Love
Περιγραφή
Texts from the Middle is a companion primary source reader to the textbook The Sea in the Middle. It can be used alone or in conjunction with the textbook, providing an original history of the Middle Ages that places the Mediterranean at the geographical center of the study of the period from 650 to 1650.
Building on the textbook’s unique approach, these sources center on the Mediterranean and emphasize the role played by peoples and cultures of Africa, Asia, and Europe in an age when Christians, Muslims, and Jews of various denominations engaged with each other in both conflict and collaboration. The supplementary reader mirrors the main text’s fifteen-chapter structure, providing six sources per chapter.
The two texts pair together to provide a framework and materials that guide students through this complex but essential history—one that will appeal to the diverse student bodies of today.