The Near West : Medieval North Africa, Latin Europe and the Mediterranean in the second axial age / Allen James Fromherz.

Author
Fromherz, Allen James [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2016]
Description
1 online resource (x, 286 pages) : illustrations, maps

Availability

Available Online

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Series
Online access: Oxford University Press Edinburgh Scholarship Online. [More in this series]
Summary note
Viewing the history of North Africa and Europe through the eyes of Christian kings and Muslim merchants, emirs and popes, Sufis, friars and rabbis, this book argues that they together experienced the twelfth-century renaissance and the commercial revolution. In the midst of this common commercial growth, North Africa and Europe also shared in a burst of spirituality and mysticism, instigating a Second Axial Age in the history of religion. Challenging the idea of a Mediterranean split between Islam and Christianity, the book shows how the Maghrib (North Africa) was not a Muslim, Arab monolith or an extension of the exotic Orient. Rather, medieval North Africa was as diverse and complex as Latin Europe. Instead of dismissing North Africa as a sideshow of European history, it should be seen as an integral part of the story.
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references (pages 226-282) and index.
Source of description
Print version record.
Contents
  • Bèjaïa : introducing North Africa, Latin Europe and the Mediterranean
  • Rome : North Africa and the papacy
  • Tunis : axis of the Middle Sea
  • Marrakech : the founding of a city
  • The Almohads : empire of the western Mediterranean
  • Between city and countryside : Ibn Khaldun and the fourteenth century
  • Conclusions : a second axial age.
ISBN
  • 9781474418850 ((electronic bk.))
  • 1474418856 ((electronic bk.))
  • 1474410073 ((electronic bk.))
  • 9781474410076 ((electronic bk.))
  • 9781474410083 ((ePub ebook))
  • 1474410081
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OCLC
959950025
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