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Credits The chapters in this book were originally published in the sources below: Chapter 1: “Antihagiography: Embrico of Mainz’s Vita Mahumeti,” Journal of Medieval History 22 (1996): 25–41. Chapter 2: In French, as “Un cadavre mutilé: le déchirement polémique de Mahomet,” Le Moyen Âge 104 (1998): 53–72. Chapter 3: “Rhetoric, Polemics, and the Art of Hostile Biography: Portraying Muhammad in Thirteenth-Century Christian Spain,” in Pensamiento hispano medieval: homenaje a Horacio Santiago Otero, edited by José María Soto Rábanos (Madrid: Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, 1998), 1497–1511. Chapter 4: “Peter the Venerable on the “Diabolical Heresy of the Saracens,” in The Devil, Heresy, and Witchcraft in the Middle Ages: Essays in Honor of Jeffrey B. Russell, edited by Alberto Ferreiro (Leiden: Brill, 1998), 345–67. Chapter 5: In French, as “Le Baptême du Roi ‘Païen’ dans les Épopées de la Croisade,” Revue de l’Histoire des Religions 217 (2000): 707–31. Chapter 6: “Images of the Other: Europe and the Muslim World before 1700,” Cairo Papers on Social Science 19, no. 2 (Summer 1996): 7–38. Chapter 7: In French, as “Veneratio Sarracenorum: dévotion commune entre musulmans et chrétiens selon Burchard de Strasbourg, ambassadeur de Fréd éric Barberousse auprès de Saladin (v. 1175),” in Chrétiens et musulmans en méditerranée médiévale (VIIIe-XIIIe siècle): échanges et contacts, edited by N. Prouteau and P. Sénac (Poitiers: Centre d’Études Supérieures de Civilisation Médiévale, 2003), 185–95. 224 / Credits Chapter 8: “Saracen Philosophers Secretly Deride Islam,” Medieval Encounters : Jewish, Christian, and Muslim Culture in Confluence and Dialogue,” 8 (2002): 185–208. Chapter 9: In French as “Barrières de haine et de mépris : la polémique antiislamique de Pedro Pascual,” in Identidad y representación de la frontera en la España medieval (siglos XI–XIV), edited by C. de Ayala, P. Josserand and P. Buresi (Madrid: Casa de Velázquez, 2001), 253–66. Chapter 10: In French, as “Affreux vacarme: sons de cloches et voix de muezzins dans la polémique interconfessionnelle en péninsule ibérique,” in Pouvoir, guerre et idéologie autour de l’an mil en péninsule ibérique (Poitiers: Centre d’Études Supérieures de Civilisation Médiévale, 2004). ...

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