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The Cult of Saint Catherine of Siena: A Study in Civil Religion (review)

it is impossible to convert the Saracens through rational or scriptural arguments” (p. 134). True. But why is Bonaventure so interested in using the founder of his order to show this? To show the Saracens to be irrational, or to show the inadequacy of rational argument to convert anyone to true faith? Given Tolan’s previous work on European imagination about Muslims, one might expect that a larger point of the book would concern the ways in which the depictions of the sultan reveal Europe’s propensity to see the failures and temptations of the world represented in Islam.Yet Tolan makes no such claim or any other about the larger significance of the encounter’s enduring fascination. His book provides a welcome and useful survey of the changing European perspectives on Francis and al-Kamil, and will be a welcome addition for scholars and readers interested in Francis, his changing image, and European perspective on Islam.