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Sam Ottewill-Soulsby The emperor and the elephant
Christians and Muslims in the age of Charlemagne
"A new history of Christian-Muslim relations in the Carolingian period that provides a fresh account of events by drawing on Arabic as well as western sources0In the year 802, an elephant arrived at the court of the Emperor Charlemagne in Aachen, sent as a gift by the ?Abbasid Caliph, Harun al-Rashid. This extraordinary moment was part of a much wider set of diplomatic relations between the Carolingian dynasty and the Islamic world, including not only the Caliphate in the east but also Umayyad al-Andalus,...
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Engels | 363 pagina's | Princeton University Press, Princeton, New Jersey | 2023
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