Contents



Acknowledgments ........................................................................................... 7



Foreword: Representations and Transfers ........................................................ 9

Hartmut Kaelble



Cultural Transfers in Dispute: An Introduction............................................. 15

Jörg Feuchter



The Middle Ages: Representations of Transfers between Islam and Christianity



Jewish or Islamic Influence? The Iconoclastic Controversy in Dispute........... 41

Wolfram Drews



Did the Medieval West Receive a »Complete Model« of Education

from Classical Islam? Reconsidering George Makdisi and His Thesis ............ 61

Tim Geelhaar



Emperor Frederick II, »Sultan of Lucera«, »Friend of the Muslims«,

Promoter of Cultural Transfer: Controversies and Suggestions ...................... 85

Dorothea Weltecke



Medieval Western Perceptions of Islam and the Scholars:

What Went Wrong? .................................................................................... 107

Kristin Skottki



Does the History of Medieval Political Thought Need a Spatial Turn?

The Murals of Longthorpe, the Secretum secretorum and the Intercultural

Transfer of Political Ideas in the High Middle Ages ..................................... 135

Bee Yun



Between »Core« and »Periphery«: Representations of Transfers of Fascism, Violence, and Law



Western Representations of Fascist Influences on Islamist Thought............. 149

Joseph-Simon Görlach



Transfers, Formations, Transformations? Some Programmatic Notes

on Fascism in India, c. 1922–1938 ............................................................. 167

Benjamin Zachariah



Colonialism and Violence: Alleged Transfers and

Political Instrumentalisation........................................................................ 193

Andreas Weiß



Legal Authenticity, Cultural Insulation and Undemocratic Rule:

Abd-al-Razzaq Ahmad al-Sanhuris (1895–1971) Sharia Project and Its

Misrepresentation in Egypt ......................................................................... 211

Friedhelm Hoffmann



East Asia: Representations of Transfers of Democracy and Human Rights, Civilisation, and Love



Transfer in Dispute: The Case of China ...................................................... 263

Heiner Roetz



The Global Diffusion of the Western Concept of Civilisation to

Nineteenth Century Korea.......................................................................... 283

Young Sun Ha



Importation of Love from Modern Europe to Korea.................................... 299

Jungwoon Choi



Notes on Contributors ................................................................................ 313



Index of Names and Places .......................................................................... 319