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The Western Perception of Islam Between the Middle Ages and the Renaissance: The Work of Nicholas of Cusa

The Western Perception of Islam Between the Middle Ages and the Renaissance: The Work of Nicholas of Cusa

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General Christianity

ISBN10: 1498208193
ISBN13: 9781498208192
Publisher: Pickwick Publications
Published: Oct 27 2017
Pages: 180
Weight: 0.60
Height: 0.50 Width: 6.00 Depth: 8.90
Language: English
In the Middle Ages, as Christian sources on the Islamic world show, Muslim culture was perceived as extremely threatening: there were many defenses of Christianity, like the treatise on the mistakes of the followers of Allah. This book shows, through an analysis of the works of Nicholas of Cusa and of other authors, that in the course of time this textual attitude was modified, as European authors aimed to point out the Christian truth in comparison with the falsity of Islamic theology, in order to reinforce Christian identity through the presupposition of its own absolute truth. The apologetic aim was gradually replaced by a systematic comparison based on partial translations of the Qur'an. The comparison with the other was also the basis for reinforcing identity, in order to demonstrate the truth and consequently the supremacy of one's own theoretical position.

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