8vo. ix, [2], 448 pp., 5 b/w plates, cloth in d/w, appendices, notes, biblio, index, jacket lightly worn at spine & rubbed at top edges, otherwise copy clean & in very good condition, University of Edinburgh Press, Edinburgh, reprint of first edition, 1962.

Synopsis

This book studies the formation of the Western idea of Islam during the period 1100-1350. The author confines his subject to matters of religion. During this period a deformed image of Islam was established in the conscious European mind. It is this that the author delineates, in its process of becoming one of the dogmas of Christian society.