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The Arab/Muslim Presence in Medieval Central Europe

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2009

Manfred W. Wenner
Affiliation:
Northern Illinois University, Dekalb, Illinois

Extract

For nearly three centuries after the famous Battle of Poitiers (Tours), which is usually regarded as the high-water mark of Arab/Muslim expansion into Western Europe, the Muslims continued to maintain a series of relatively isolated presences in regions of Western Europe outside the Iberian Peninsula. Although these presences have tended to be forgotten within the larger picture of Muslim/Christian relationships during the medieval period, the researches of some nineteenth and twentieth century scholars would seem to indicate that they left behind a considerably larger legacy than has previously been suspected.

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