Alterum Byzantium

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Recensione | Byzantium and Its Neighbours
Capitolo | Writing and Reading Anti-Islamic Polemics in Byzantium

Writing and Reading Anti-Islamic Polemics in Byzantium

The Dialogue on the Faith of the Monk Euthymios with a Saracen Philosopher (Twelfth Century)

Abstract

The Dialogue on the Faith, attributed to an unknown author conventionally known as Pseudo-Euthymios, is often regarded as an unoriginal patchwork of traditional apologetic and polemical arguments against Islam, compiled in the twelfth century. A closer analysis of its textual features (linguistic register, rhetorical structure, argumentative strategies) and manuscript tradition helps to shed light on the geographical and social milieu of its production and early circulation, its audience and its possible functions. This will contribute to a deeper understanding of the cultural significance of this text and open new avenues of approach to the literary genre of anti-Islamic controversies in late Byzantium.


Open access | Peer reviewed

Presentato: 14 Giugno 2024 | Accettato: 21 Agosto 2024 | Pubblicato 30 Dicembre 2024 | Lingua: en

Keywords Byzantine polemics and apologeticsDialogueCrusader StatesByzantine polemicsInterreligious debateIslamByzantine LiteratureMedieval PalestineManuscript circulationByzantine apologetics


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