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Terror and Toleration
The Habsburg Empire Confronts Islam, 1526-1850
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Many negative stereotypes of Muslims can be traced to the clashes between the Ottoman Empire and Christian Europe in the Middle Ages. Paula Sutter Fichtner explores here the particular dynamics between the Ottoman and Austrian Habsburg empires and chronicles the evolution of a political relationship that shifted from hatred to understanding.
In the fourteenth century, Ottoman armies swept westward across the Danube Valley before confronting the Habsburgs, who ruled central and eastern Europe, and in Terror and Toleration, Fichtner charts the religious and political conflicts that fueled 300 years of war. She reveals how ruling powers in Vienna and the church spread propaganda about Muslims that still lingers today. But the Habsburgs dramatically reversed their attitudes toward Muslims in the seventeenth century, and through this story, Fichtner explains how one can recognize an enemy while adjusting one’s views about them.
A fascinating read, Terror and Toleration sheds new light on the deep roots of the often contentious relationship between Islam and the West.
Reaktion Books; February 2008
207 pages; ISBN 9781861894137
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207 pages; ISBN 9781861894137
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Subject categories
- Academic > History > History of Austria. Liechtenstein. Hungary. Czechoslovakia > Austria. Austro-Hungarian Empire > Antiquities. Social life and customs. Ethnography
- Academic > History > History of Austria. Liechtenstein. Hungary. Czechoslovakia > Austria. Austro-Hungarian Empire > History
- History > United States > Civil War Period (1850-1877)
- Religion > Islam
- Social Science > Discrimination & Race Relations
- History > Australia & Oceania
- History > Military
- History > Asia
- History > World
- History > Far East
- History > Great Britain
- History > Europe
- History > Africa
- Political Science
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9781861894137
9781861893406
1861894139