Includes bibliographical references (pages 361-393) and index.
1. Early Eastern Christian Responses to Islam / John C. Lamoreaux -- 2. The Syriac and Armenian Christian Responses to the Islamification of the Mongols / David Bundy -- 3. Manuel I Comnenus and the "God of Muhammad": A Study in Byzantine Ecclesiastical Politics / Craig L. Hanson -- 4. Christian Views of Islam in Early Medieval Spain / Kenneth Baxter Wolf -- 5. "The Tathlith al-wahdaniyah" and the Twelfth-Century Andalusian-Christian Approach to Islam / Thomas E. Burman -- 6. Antichrist and Islam in Medieval Franciscan Exegesis / David Burr -- 7. Nicholas of Lyra and Paul of Burgos on Islam / Philip Krey -- 8. Frederick II, His Saracens, and the Papacy / John Phillip Lomax -- 9. John-Jerome of Prague and the Religion of the Saracens / William Patrick Hyland -- 10. Jacob van Maerlant on Muhammad and Islam / Geert H.M. Claassens -- 11. Portrayal of Muslims in Andrea da Barberino's Guerrino il Meschino / Gloria Allaire -- 12. "Machomete" and Mandeville's Travels / Frank Grady.