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THE NEW MIDDLE AGES
BONNIE WHEELER, Series Editor
The New Middle Ages is a series dedicated to pluridisciplinary studies of medieval cultures, with
particular emphasis on recuperating women’s history and on feminist and gender analyses. This
peer-reviewed series includes both scholarly monographs and essay collections.
PUBLISHED BY PALGRAVE:

Women in the Medieval Islamic World: Power, Crossing the Bridge: Comparative Essays on
Patronage, and Piety Medieval European and Heian Japanese
edited by Gavin R. G. Hambly Women Writers
edited by Barbara Stevenson and
The Ethics of Nature in the Middle Ages: On
Cynthia Ho
Boccaccio’s Poetaphysics
by Gregory B. Stone Engaging Words: The Culture of Reading in
the Later Middle Ages
Presence and Presentation: Women in the by Laurel Amtower
Chinese Literati Tradition
Robes and Honor: The Medieval World of
edited by Sherry J. Mou
Investiture
The Lost Love Letters of Heloise and Abelard: edited by Stewart Gordon
Perceptions of Dialogue in Twelfth-Century
Representing Rape in Medieval and Early
France
Modern Literature
by Constant J. Mews
edited by Elizabeth Robertson and
Understanding Scholastic Thought with Christine M. Rose
Foucault
Same Sex Love and Desire Among Women in
by Philipp W. Rosemann
the Middle Ages
For Her Good Estate: The Life of Elizabeth de edited by Francesca Canadé Sautman and
Burgh Pamela Sheingorn
by Frances A. Underhill
Sight and Embodiment in the Middle Ages:
Constructions of Widowhood and Virginity in the Ocular Desires
Middle Ages by Suzannah Biernoff
edited by Cindy L. Carlson and Angela Listen, Daughter: The Speculum Virginum and
Jane Weisl the Formation of Religious Women in the
Middle Ages
Motherhood and Mothering in Anglo-Saxon
edited by Constant J. Mews
England
by Mary Dockray-Miller Science, the Singular, and the Question of
Theology
Listening to Heloise: The Voice of a Twelfth-
by Richard A. Lee, Jr.
Century Woman
edited by Bonnie Wheeler Gender in Debate from the Early Middle Ages to
the Renaissance
The Postcolonial Middle Ages
edited by Thelma S. Fenster and Clare
edited by Jeff rey Jerome Cohen
A. Lees
Chaucer’s Pardoner and Gender Theory: Malory’s Morte D’Arthur: Remaking
Bodies of Discourse Arthurian Tradition
by Robert S. Sturges by Catherine Batt
The Vernacular Spirit: Essays on Medieval The Texture of Society: Medieval Women in the
Religious Literature Southern Low Countries
edited by Renate Blumenfeld-Kosinski, edited by Ellen E. Kittell and Mary
Duncan Robertson, and Nancy Warren A. Suydam
Popular Piety and Art in the Late Middle Ages: Charlemagne’s Mustache: And Other Cultural
Image Worship and Idolatry in England Clusters of a Dark Age
1350–1500 by Paul Edward Dutton
by Kathleen Kamerick
Troubled Vision: Gender, Sexuality, and Sight in
Absent Narratives, Manuscript Textuality, and Medieval Text and Image
Literary Structure in Late Medieval England edited by Emma Campbell and Robert
by Elizabeth Scala Mills
Creating Community with Food and Drink in Queering Medieval Genres
Merovingian Gaul by Tison Pugh
by Bonnie Eff ros
Sacred Place in Early Medieval Neoplatonism
Representations of Early Byzantine Empresses: by L. Michael Harrington
Image and Empire
The Middle Ages at Work
by Anne McClanan
edited by Kellie Robertson and
Encountering Medieval Textiles and Dress: Michael Uebel
Objects, Texts, Images
Chaucer’s Jobs
edited by Désirée G. Koslin and Janet
by David R. Carlson
Snyder
Medievalism and Orientalism: Three Essays on
Eleanor of Aquitaine: Lord and Lady
Literature, Architecture and Cultural Identity
edited by Bonnie Wheeler and John
by John M. Ganim
Carmi Parsons
Queer Love in the Middle Ages
Isabel La Católica, Queen of Castile: Critical
by Anna Klosowska
Essays
edited by David A. Boruchoff Performing Women in the Middle Ages: Sex,
Gender, and the Iberian Lyric
Homoeroticism and Chivalry: Discourses of Male
by Denise K. Filios
Same-Sex Desire in the Fourteenth Century
by Richard E. Zeikowitz Necessary Conjunctions: The Social Self in
Medieval England
Portraits of Medieval Women: Family, Marriage,
by David Gary Shaw
and Politics in England 1225–1350
by Linda E. Mitchell Visual Culture and the German Middle Ages
edited by Kathryn Starkey and Horst
Eloquent Virgins: From Thecla to Joan of Arc
Wenzel
by Maud Burnett McInerney
Medieval Paradigms: Essays in Honor of Jeremy
The Persistence of Medievalism: Narrative duQuesnay Adams, Volumes 1 and 2
Adventures in Contemporary Culture edited by Stephanie Hayes-Healy
by Angela Jane Weisl
False Fables and Exemplary Truth in Later
Capetian Women Middle English Literature
edited by Kathleen D. Nolan by Elizabeth Allen
Joan of Arc and Spirituality Ecstatic Transformation: On the Uses of Alterity
edited by Ann W. Astell and Bonnie in the Middle Ages
Wheeler by Michael Uebel
Sacred and Secular in Medieval and Early Mindful Spirit in Late Medieval Literature:
Modern Cultures: New Essays Essays in Honor of Elizabeth D. Kirk
edited by Lawrence Besserman edited by Bonnie Wheeler
Tolkien’s Modern Middle Ages Medieval Fabrications: Dress, Textiles,
edited by Jane Chance and Alfred Clothwork, a nd Other Cultural Imaginings
K. Siewers edited by E. Jane Burns
Representing Righteous Heathens in Late Was the Bayeux Tapestry Made in France?
Medieval England The Case for St. Florent of Saumur
by Frank Grady by George Beech
Byzantine Dress: Representations of Secular Women, Power, and Religious Patronage in the
Dress in Eighth-to-Twelfth Century Painting Middle Ages
by Jennifer L. Ball by Erin L. Jordan
The Laborer’s Two Bodies: Labor and the Hybridity, Identity, and Monstrosity in
“Work” of the Text in Medieval Britain, Medieval Britain: On Diffi cult Middles
1350–1500 by Jeff rey Jerome Cohen
by Kellie Robertson
Medieval Go-betweens and Chaucer’s
The Dogaressa of Venice, 1250–1500: Wife Pandarus
and Icon by Gretchen Mieszkowski
by Holly S. Hurlburt
The Surgeon in Medieval English Literature
Logic, Theology, and Poetry in Boethius, by Jeremy J. Citrome
Abelard, and Alan of Lille: Words in the
Temporal Circumstances: Form and History in
Absence of Things
the Canterbury Tales
by Eileen C. Sweeney
by Lee Patterson
The Theology of Work: Peter Damian and the
Erotic Discourse and Early English Religious
Medieval Religious Renewal Movement
Writing
by Patricia Ranft
by Lara Farina
On the Purifi cation of Women: Churching in Odd Bodies and Visible Ends in Medieval
Northern France, 1100–1500 Literature
by Paula M. Rieder by Sachi Shimomura
Writers of the Reign of Henry II: Twelve On Farting: Language and Laughter in the
Essays Middle Ages
edited by Ruth Kennedy and Simon by Valerie Allen
Meecham-Jones
Women and Medieval Epic: Gender, Genre,
Lonesome Words: The Vocal Poetics of the Old and the Limits of Epic Masculinity
English Lament and the African-American edited by Sara S. Poor and Jana
Blues Song K. Schulman
by M. G. McGeachy
Race, Class, and Gender in “Medieval”
Performing Piety: Musical Culture in Medieval Cinema
English Nunneries edited by Lynn T. Ramey and
by Anne Bagnell Yardley Tison Pugh
The Flight from Desire: Augustine and Ovid to Allegory and Sexual Ethics in the High Middle
Chaucer Ages
by Robert R. Edwards by Noah D. Guynn
England and Iberia in the Middle Ages, Hildegard of Bingen’s Unknown Language: An
12th–15th Century: Cultural, Literary, and Edition, Translation, and Discussion
Political Exchanges by Sarah L. Higley
edited by María Bullón-Fernández
Medieval Romance and the Construction of
The Medieval Chastity Belt: A Myth-Making Heterosexuality
Process by Louise M. Sylvester
by Albrecht Classen
Communal Discord, Child Abduction, and Rape
Claustrophilia: The Erotics of Enclosure in in the Later Middle Ages
Medieval Literature by Jeremy Goldberg
by Cary Howie
Lydgate Matters: Poetry and Material Culture in
Cannibalism in High Medieval English the Fifteenth Century
Literature edited by Lisa H. Cooper and Andrea
by Heather Blurton Denny-Brown
The Drama of Masculinity and Medieval Sexuality and Its Queer Discontents in Middle
English Guild Culture English Literature
by Christina M. Fitzgerald by Tison Pugh
Chaucer’s Visions of Manhood Sex, Scandal, and Sermon in Fourteenth-
by Holly A. Crocker Century Spain: Juan Ruiz’s Libro de Buen
Amor
The Literary Subversions of Medieval Women by Louise M. Haywood
by Jane Chance
The Erotics of Consolation: Desire and Distance
Manmade Marvels in Medieval Culture and in the Late Middle Ages
Literature edited by Catherine E. Léglu and
by Scott Lightsey Stephen J. Milner
American Chaucers Battlefronts Real and Imagined: War, Border,
by Candace Barrington and Identity in the Chinese Middle Period
edited by Don J. Wyatt
Representing Others in Medieval Iberian
Literature Wisdom and Her Lovers in Medieval and Early
by Michelle M. Hamilton Modern Hispanic Literature
by Emily C. Francomano
Paradigms and Methods in Early Medieval
Studies Power, Piety, and Patronage in Late Medieval
edited by Celia Chazelle and Felice Queenship: Maria de Luna
Lifshitz by Nuria Silleras-Fernandez
The King and the Whore: King Roderick and In the Light of Medieval Spain: Islam, the
La Cava West, and the Relevance of the Past
by Elizabeth Drayson edited by Simon R. Doubleday and
David Coleman, foreword by Giles
Langland’s Early Modern Identities
Tremlett
by Sarah A. Kelen
Chaucerian Aesthetics
Cultural Studies of the Modern
by Peggy A. Knapp
Middle Ages
edited by Eileen A. Joy, Myra J. Seaman, Memory, Images, and the English Corpus Christi
Kimberly K. Bell, and Mary K. Drama
Ramsey by Theodore K. Lerud
Cultural Diversity in the British Middle Ages: Strange Beauty: Ecocritical Approaches to Early
Archipelago, Island, England Medieval Landscape
edited by Jeff rey Jerome Cohen by Alfred K. Siewers
Excrement in the Late Middle Ages: Sacred Filth Berenguela of Castile (1180–1246) and
and Chaucer’s Fecopoetics Political Women in the High Middle Ages
by Susan Signe Morrison by Miriam Shadis
Authority and Subjugation in Writing of
Julian of Norwich’s Legacy: Medieval Mysticism
Medieval Wales
and Post-Medieval Reception
edited by Ruth Kennedy and Simon
edited by Sarah Salih and Denise
Meecham-Jones
N. Baker
The Medieval Poetics of the Reliquary:
Medievalism, Multilingualism, and Chaucer
Enshrinement, Inscription, Performance
by Mary Catherine Davidson
by Seeta Chaganti
The Letters of Heloise and Abelard: A
The Legend of Charlemagne in the Middle Ages:
Translation of Their Complete Correspondence
Power, Faith, and Crusade
and Related Writings
edited by Matthew Gabriele and Jace
translated and edited by Mary
Stuckey
Martin McLaughlin with Bonnie
The Poems of Oswald von Wolkenstein: An Wheeler
English Translation of the Complete Works
(1376/77–1445) Women and Wealth in Late Medieval Europe
by Albrecht Classen edited by Theresa Earenfi ght
Women and Experience in Later Medieval Visual Power and Fame in René d’Anjou,
Writing: Reading the Book of Life Geoff rey Chaucer, and the Black Prince
edited by Anneke B. Mulder-Bakker by SunHee Kim Gertz
and Liz Herbert McAvoy
Geoff rey Chaucer Hath a Blog: Medieval
Ethics and Eventfulness in Middle English Studies and New Media
Literature: Singular Fortunes by Brantley L. Bryant
by J. Allan Mitchell
Margaret Paston’s Piety
Maintenance, Meed, and Marriage in Medieval
by Joel T. Rosenthal
English Literature
by Kathleen E. Kennedy Gender and Power in Medieval Exegesis
by Theresa Tinkle
The Post-Historical Middle Ages
edited by Elizabeth Scala and Sylvia Antimercantilism in Late Medieval English
Federico Literature
by Roger A. Ladd
Constructing Chaucer: Author and Autofi ction
in the Critical Tradition
Magnifi cence and the Sublime in Medieval
by Geoff rey W. Gust
Aesthetics: Art, Architecture, Literature,
Queens in Stone and Silver: The Creation of a Music
Visual Imagery of Queenship in Capetian edited by C. Stephen Jaeger
France
Medieval and Early Modern Devotional
by Kathleen Nolan
Objects in Global Perspective: Translations
Finding Saint Francis in Literature and Art of the Sacred
edited by Cynthia Ho, Beth A. Mulvaney, edited by Elizabeth Robertson
and John K. Downey and Jennifer Jahner
Late Medieval Jewish Identities: Iberia and Beyond Fairies in Medieval Romance
edited by Carmen Caballero-Navas and by James Wade
Esperanza Alfonso
Reason and Imagination in Chaucer, the
Outlawry in Medieval Literature Perle -poet, and the Cloud -author: Seeing
by Timothy S. Jones from the Center
by Linda Tarte Holley
Women and Disability in Medieval Literature
by Tory Vandeventer Pearman The Inner Life of Women in Medieval
Romance Literature: Grief, Guilt, and
The Lesbian Premodern Hypocris y
edited by Noreen Giff ney, Michelle edited by Jeff Rider and Jamie
M. Sauer, and Diane Watt Friedman
Crafting Jewishness in Medieval England: Language as the Site of Revolt in Medieval and
Legally Absent, Virtually Present Early Modern England: Speaking as a Woman
by Miriamne Ara Krummel by M. C. Bodden
Street Scenes: Late Medieval Acting Ecofeminist Subjectivities: Chaucer’s Talking
and Performance Birds
by Sharon Aronson-Lehavi by Lesley Kordecki
Women and Economic Activities in Late Contextualizing the Muslim Other in
Medieval Ghent Medieval Christian Discourse
by Shennan Hutton edited by Jerold C. Frakes
Palimpsests and the Literary Imagination of Ekphrastic Medieval Visions: A New
Medieval England: Collected Essays Discussion in Interarts Theory
edited by Leo Carruthers, Raeleen by Claire Barbetti
Chai-Elsholz, and Tatjana Silec
The [European] Other in Medieval
Divine Ventriloquism in Medieval English Arabic Literature and Culture:
Literature: Power, Anxiety, Subversion Ninth-Twelfth Century AD
by Mary Hayes by Nizar F. Hermes
Vernacular and Latin Literary Discourses of the Heloise and the Paraclete: A Twelfth-Century
Muslim Other in Medieval Germany Quest (forthcoming)
by Jerold C. Frakes by Mary Martin McLaughlin
THE [EUROPEAN] OTHER IN
MEDIEVAL ARABIC LITERATURE
AND CULTURE
NINTH-TWELFTH CENTURY AD
Nizar F. Hermes
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THE [EUROPEAN] OTHER IN MEDIEVAL ARABIC LITERATURE AND CULTURE
Copyright © Nizar F. Hermes , 2012
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Hermes, Nizar F.
The European other in medieval Arabic literature and culture :
ninth-twelfth century AD / Nizar F. Hermes.
p. cm.—(New Middle Ages)
On t.p. the word European is enclosed in brackets.
Includes bibliographical references.
1. Arab countries—Relations—Europe—Sources. 2. Europe—Relations—
Arab countries—Sources. 3. Europe—Foreign public opinion, Arab—
History—To 1500—Sources. 4. Europeans—Public opinion—History—To
1500—Sources. 5. Other (Philosophy)—Arab countries—History—To 1500—
Sources. 6. Gaze—Social aspects—Arab countries—History—To 1500—
Sources. 7. Christians—Public opinion—History—To 1500—Sources.
8. Muslims—Arab countries—Attitudes—History—To 1500—Sources.
9. Arabic prose literature—History and criticism. 10. Arabic poetry—History
and criticism. I. Title. II. Title: Other in medieval Arabic literature and culture.
DS63.2.E8H47 2012
892.7(cid:2)0935840902—dc23 2011039092
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