Gilles Veinstein – författare

Europe and the Islamic World sheds much-needed light on the shared roots of Islamic and Western cultures and on the richness of their inextricably intertwined histories, refuting once and for all the misguided notion of a "clash of civilizations" between the Muslim world and Europe. In this landmark book, three eminent historians bring to life the complex and tumultuous relations between Genoans and Tunisians, Alexandrians and the people of Constantinople, Catalans and Maghrebis--the myriad groups and individuals whose stories reflect the common cultural, intellectual, and religious heritage of Europe and Islam. Since the seventh century, when the armies of Constantinople and Medina fought for control of Syria and Palestine, there has been ongoing contact between the Muslim world and the West. This sweeping history vividly recounts the wars and the crusades, the alliances and diplomacy, commerce and the slave trade, technology transfers, and the intellectual and artistic exchanges.Here readers are given an unparalleled introduction to key periods and events, including the Muslim conquests, the collapse of the Byzantine Empire, the commercial revolution of the medieval Mediterranean, the intellectual and cultural achievements of Muslim Spain, the crusades and Spanish reconquest, the rise of the Ottomans and their conquest of a third of Europe, European colonization and decolonization, and the challenges and promise of this entwined legacy today. As provocative as it is groundbreaking, this book describes this shared history in all its richness and diversity, revealing how ongoing encounters between Europe and Islam have profoundly shaped both.

Europe and the Islamic World sheds much-needed light on the shared roots of Islamic and Western cultures and on the richness of their inextricably intertwined histories, refuting once and for all the misguided notion of a "clash of civilizations" between the Muslim world and Europe. In this landmark book, three eminent historians bring to life the complex and tumultuous relations between Genoans and Tunisians, Alexandrians and the people of Constantinople, Catalans and Maghrebis--the myriad groups and individuals whose stories reflect the common cultural, intellectual, and religious heritage of Europe and Islam. Since the seventh century, when the armies of Constantinople and Medina fought for control of Syria and Palestine, there has been ongoing contact between the Muslim world and the West. This sweeping history vividly recounts the wars and the crusades, the alliances and diplomacy, commerce and the slave trade, technology transfers, and the intellectual and artistic exchanges.Here readers are given an unparalleled introduction to key periods and events, including the Muslim conquests, the collapse of the Byzantine Empire, the commercial revolution of the medieval Mediterranean, the intellectual and cultural achievements of Muslim Spain, the crusades and Spanish reconquest, the rise of the Ottomans and their conquest of a third of Europe, European colonization and decolonization, and the challenges and promise of this entwined legacy today. As provocative as it is groundbreaking, this book describes this shared history in all its richness and diversity, revealing how ongoing encounters between Europe and Islam have profoundly shaped both.

The first group of studies in this volume tackles the controversial question of the nature of the Ottoman landholding system and the extent to which large estates, the çiftlik, emerged as a reaction to the increasing Western European demand for Ottoman agricultural produce. The following section turns to military history, a subject well documented in the archives from which Gilles Veinstein has drawn the material for his research, and not surprisingly, given that one of the main tasks of the Ottoman state was that of making war. His concern , however, is not directly with the battles, but with the logistics of Ottoman campaigns, the institutions and the powerful bureaucracy that supported these demands, and their socio-economic effects. The final pair of studies make use of census records to examine the position of non-Muslim groups - Greek, Armenian, and Jewish - in the 16th century.

Voici l’histoire d’une relation tumultueuse sans laquelle il est impossible de comprendre notre temps. La conquête arabe, la décomposition de Byzance, les croisades, l’Espagne maure et la Reconquista, les échanges et les conflits du XVIIIe siècle, l’Empire ottoman, la colonisation européenne et la décolonisation : depuis 630, lorsque les armées de Constantinople et de Médine se disputèrent le contrôle de la Syrie-Palestine, les contacts entre l’Europe et le monde musulman n’ont cessé. Leur importance, leur richesse, leur variété, si manifestes pour celui qui connaît l’histoire, ne sont pourtant pas si évidentes pour tous. Pour les comprendre, il ne s’agit pas d’opposer les deux « civilisations » rivales que seraient, selon Samuel Huntington, Islam et Europe, mais d’explorer les relations multiples entre Génois et Tunisiens, Constantinopolitains et Alexandrins ou encore Catalans et Maghrébins, bref, entre tous les individus et les groupes qui ont forgé ce que nous appelons désormais l’Europe et le monde musulman, dont les racines s’enfoncent profondément dans un héritage religieux, culturel et intellectuel commun. Trois grands spécialistes font revivre ici cette histoire multiséculaire et proposent une somme historique de référence pour éclairer la complexité des enjeux, des héritages et des événements contemporains. Henry Laurens, spécialiste du monde arabo-musulman, est professeur au Collège de France (chaire d’histoire contemporaine du monde arabe). John Tolan, médiéviste, est professeur d’histoire à l’université de Nantes et directeur de la Maison des sciences de l’homme Ange-Guépin. Gilles Veinstein est professeur au Collège de France (chaire d’histoire turque et ottomane) et directeur d’études à l’école des hautes études en sciences sociales.