These fifteen original essays focus on unfamiliar texts that reflect the wide range of medieval Christianity's preoccupation with Islam.

This collection will be welcomed by anyone working on the interactions of the Muslim and Christian worlds in the Middle Ages and the more casual reader will be struck by the persistence of stereotypes on both sides of the divide. Medium Aevum LXXIX

The essays explore what, from the ninth to the fourteenth century, Western Christian clerks and kings, monks and abbots, friars and bishops, and scholars and poets wrote about Muslims and Islam. . . . Tolan s book is among the best in the field. Journal of Religion

Considers such examples as portrayals of Muhammad in...