Tim,
I find your explanation of the translation project more plausible than
that it was aimed directly at Muslims. Missionary activity - from what I
have read in Dawson, E. R. Daniel & Kedar - seems to have been an off and
on thing during the later Middle Ages. European expansion seems to have
made the effort to evangelize both more intense and more coherently
organized, including the eventual formation in Rome of the Congregation de
propoganda fide and the foundation of missionary orders.
tom izbicki
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