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Muslims of Medieval Latin Christendom,

1050–1614

In the face of crusades, conversions, and expulsions, Muslims and their

communities survived to thrive for over 500 years in medieval Europe.

This comprehensive new study explores how the presence of Islamic

minorities transformed Europe in everything from architecture to cook-

ing, literature to science, and served as a stimulus for Christian society to

deﬁne itself. Combining a series of regional studies, Brian Catlos com-

pares the varied experiences of Muslims across Iberia, Southern Italy, the

Crusader Kingdoms, and Hungary to examine those ideologies that

informed their experiences, their place in society, and their sense of

themselves as Muslims and as members of multi-confessional societies.

This is a pioneering new narrative of the history of medieval and early

modern Europe from the perspective of Islamic minorities; one which is

not, as we might

ﬁrst

assume, driven by ideology, isolation, and decline,

but instead one in which successful communities persisted because they

remained actively integrated within the larger Christian and Jewish soci-

eties in which they lived.

brian catlos

is Associate Professor of Religious Studies at the University

of Colorado at Boulder and Research Associate in Humanities at the

University of California Santa Cruz.

Muslims of Medieval Latin

Christendom,

1050–1614

Brian A. Catlos

University of Colorado at Boulder

University of California, Santa Cruz