Reading the Qur'ān in Latin Christendom, 1140-1560Selected by Choice magazine as an Outstanding Academic Title Most of what we know about attitudes toward Islam in the medieval and early modern West has been based on polemical treatises against Islam written by Christian scholars preoccupied with defending their own faith and attacking the doctrines of others. Christian readings of the Qur'n have in consequence typically been depicted as tedious and one dimensional exercises in anti Islamic