Christian Europe

The geographic and cultural region of Europe characterized by Christian dominance during the medieval and early modern periods, often used as a comparative category to analyze Muslim-ruled territories such as al-Andalus. In these claims it functions as a coherent historical unit whose religious, intellectual, and political conditions (toleration, scholastic reception of philosophy, inter-state dynamics) are contrasted with the Islamic world.

Claims that use this term

• Religious tolerance in Isfahan was unusual compared to Christian Europe.
• Gothic Muslim monsters distinguish themselves by crossing borders into Christian Europe
• Muslim-ruled al-Andalus flourished while Christian Europe stagnated.
• The papacy manufactured Muslims as a holy-war enemy to unify Christian Europe
• Averroes’s philosophy was more influential in Christian Europe than in the Islamic world
• Tempels argued Bantu culture merits philosophical recognition partly through resemblance to Christian Europe