tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21165575.post1946812456499733836..comments2024-03-10T20:46:19.274-04:00Comments on In the Middle: Idols in the East (and South): European Representations of Islam and the Orient [and Jews and Monstrous Races and the Christian Self], 1100-1450Cord J. Whitakerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06224143153295429986noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21165575.post-53912627147993866392010-12-19T18:23:32.487-05:002010-12-19T18:23:32.487-05:00Jonathan, the quick answer is no: the book focuses...Jonathan, the quick answer is no: the book focuses mainly upon how literature, encyclopedias and theology imagined the Saracen. It isn't really about "on the ground" experience of say, the legal sorting of identities. The frontiers are mainly as imagined, rather than the actual geographical spaces.<br /><br />Which isn't to say that you won't find of great value here; I'd recommend the book to anyone interested in relations among Christians, Jews and Muslims.Jeffrey Cohenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17346504393740520542noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21165575.post-53596633885593399612010-12-18T16:24:11.823-05:002010-12-18T16:24:11.823-05:00Muslim soul and Oriental body together form the ub...<i>Muslim soul and Oriental body together form the ubiquitous figure known as the Saracen.</i><br /><br />One of the things I've never been quite able to work out in my own materials is what to make of apparently-Christian persons in frontier Spain actually called SarracĂn (or Mauro). I could use a theoretical handle on this, since the onomastic literature appears unable to provide a historical one. My question, therefore: is that handle herein? Or is this solely about the Oriental Orient however conceived?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com