Votes No votes so far! Be the first to rate this post. The following timeline presents a survey of Muslim presence in Europe from the 7th century CE until the 20th century. It lists the various and different contacts that shaped the relations of Muslims with Western Europe. The following timeline [1] presents a survey of Muslim presence in Europe from the 7th century CE until the 20th century.
It lists the various and different contacts that shaped the relations of Muslims with Western Europe and gave rise to perceptions and labels of Muslims in the West during several centuries.
These relations were various, religious, military, diplomatic, through trade and commerce, by intellectual exchanges in different domains. It is by thinking about these events of the past that we can understand the actual state of complexity of the relationships between these two major components of our world.
Introduction 2. Conquest of Spain and campaigns into France 3. Andalusian caliphate 4. Post Caliphal Spain through the Reconquista 5. The last Muslim power in Spain 6. Muslim Sicily 9. Muslims in non-Muslim Sicily Mediterranean Islands after Sicilian conquest Muslims in Italy Nordic-Muslim relations Muslims in Britain Franco-Muslim relations Muslims in Alpine nations Benelux-Muslim contacts German-Muslim contacts Converts, corsairs, renegades and rebels 14thth centuries Monks, historians, scholars Literary and artistic presence Glossary The image that results from such a survey builds a rich and somewhat colorful scheme of a forgotten shared history, that of 14 centuries of exchanges and mutual enrichment between two major civilisations of the ancient and modern world.
Both the designations Muslim and Western Europe frequently prove to be very loose definitions that serve to divide and create exclusivist tensions that are historically exaggerated. Often the exchange between Muslims and Western Europe will be redefined as Islam vs. Christendom, Islam vs. West, etc. In this work, the terms are employed as conventional means of expressing historical connection between worlds that, due to varying vastly political reasons, are unfairly separated.
