ABSTRACT
Provides the history of ideas and background to sixteenth-century Turcica through an analysis of the development of the most important themes and writings on Islam/the Turks during the medieval period, specifically in reference to those subjects that we would define as ‘religious,’ including Western understandings of the Pillars of Islam, the Qur’an, the life of Muhammad, etc. Utilizing a wide range of popular and scholarly primary sources, my central argument concerning medieval understandings of Islam largely substantiates that made by Norman Daniel in his classic study, Islam and the West, with some qualifications and updates.
