“Tam falsorum christianorum quam falsigraphorum sarracenorum crimina”: Christian Reform and the Contra legem Sarracenorum in the Early Modern Period

Riccoldo da Monte di Croce, a Dominican friar, embarked on a pilgrimage to the Holy Land in 1288 and spent years as a missionary in Muslim Baghdad, learning Arabic and studying the Qur’an. After returning to Florence, he wrote extensively about non-Christian peoples.