Download or read book Arabic-Islamic Views of the Latin West written by Daniel G. König and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2015 with total page 451 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Annotation The author offers an insight into how the Arabic-Islamic world perceived medieval Western Europe, refuting previous claims that the Muslim world regarded Western Europe as a cultural backwater, instead arguing for the presence of cultural and information flows between the two very different societies.