The authors have conceived and discussed the book jointly. Paul Shore authored Parts 1, 3, 7, 8, and 9; Emanuele Colombo authored Parts 2, 4, 5, 6, and 10. The contents are discussed more extensively in articles and book chapters previously published by the authors.
For Part 1, see Paul Shore, “The Vita Christi of Ludolph of Saxony and Its Influence on the Spiritual Exercises of Ignatius of Loyola,” Studies in the Spirituality of Jesuits 30, no. 1 (1998): 1–32.
For Part 2, see Emanuele Colombo, “Defeating the Infidels, Helping Their Souls: Ignatius Loyola and Islam,” in A Companion to Ignatius of Loyola: Life, Writings, Spirituality, Influence, ed. Robert A. Maryks (Leiden: Brill, 2014), 179–97.
For Part 4, see Emanuele Colombo, “Entre guerre juste et accommodation: Antonio Possevino et l’islam,” Dix-septième siècle 268, no. 3 (2015): 393–408; Colombo, “The Society of the World: Antonio Possevino and the Jesuit Debate over Purity of Blood,” in Jesuits and Race: A Global History of Continuity and Change, 1530–2020, ed. Nathaniel Millett and Charles H. Parker (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2022), 23–52.
For Part 5, see Emanuele Colombo, “Jesuits and Islam in Seventeenth-Century Europe: War, Preaching, and Conversions,” in L’islam visto da occidente: Cultura e religione del Seicento europeo di fronte all’Islam, ed. Bernard Heyberger, Mercedes García-Arenal, Emanuele Colombo, and Paola Vismara (Milan: Marietti, 2009), 315–40; Colombo, “Western Theologies and Islam,” in The Oxford Handbook of Early Modern Theology, 1600–1800, ed. Ulrich L. Lehner, Richard Muller, and A. [Anthony] G. Roeber (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015), 482–98; and the entries “Niccolò Maria Pallavicini,” and “Juan de Almarza,” in Christian–Muslim Relations: A Bibliographical History, vol. 9, Western and Southern Europe (1600–1700), ed. David Thomas and John A. Chesworth (Leiden: Brill, 2017), 339–42, 807–11; “Tirso González de Santalla,” in Christian–Muslim Relations: A Bibliographical History, vol. 13, Western Europe (1700–1800), ed. David Thomas and John A. Chesworth (Leiden: Brill, 2019), 796–805.
For Part 6, see Emanuele Colombo, “‘Infidels at Home’: Jesuits and Muslim Slaves in Seventeenth-Century Naples and Spain,” Journal of Jesuit Studies 1, no. 2 (2014): 192–211.
For Part 7, see Paul Shore, “Two Hungarian Jesuits and the Qurʾan: Understanding, Misunderstanding, and Polemic,” Journal of Qurʾanic Studies 20, no. 3 (2018): 81–93.
For Part 9, see Paul Shore, “An Early Jesuit Encounter with the Qurʾān: Ignazio Lomellini’s Animadversiones, notae ac disputationes in pestilentem Alcoranum,” American Journal of Islamic Social Sciences 34, no. 1 (2017): 1–22.
For Part 10, see Emanuele Colombo, “Jesuits and Islam in Early Modern Europe,” in The Oxford Handbook of the Jesuits, ed. Ines G. Županov (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018), 349–78.
Paul Shore dedicates this book to Klára, who helped so much.
Emanuele Colombo dedicates this book to the memory of Robert Bireley, S.J. (1933–2018) and John W. O’Malley, S.J. (1927–2022).