Sam Ottewill-Soulsby is a senior researcher at the University of Oslo.
"""A remarkably lively and intelligent book.""---Robert Irwin, Times Literary Supplement ""Ottewill-Soulsby has powerfully demonstrated that Carolingian historians cannot hope to examine Christian-Muslim diplomatic relations without first comprehending the political dynamics of Muslim polities based on their own sources . . . [A]n important, enduring contribution to medieval scholarship.""---Sara Ann Knutson, Studies in Late Antiquity"