Saint Francis and the Sultan
The Curious History of a Christian-Muslim Encounter
ISBN:
9780199239726
Date published:
March 2009
Hardback
Price:
£25.00 In September, 1219, Francis of Assisi went to Egpyt to preach to Sultan al-Malik al-Kâmil. John Tolan examines the varying depictions of this brief but highly significant meeting and how they reveal the changing fears and hopes that Muslim-Christian encounters have inspired in European artists and writers in the centuries since.