Editing Ramon Llull (section)

===Missionary work and education===
Llull urged the study of Arabic and other languages in Europe,<ref name="Johnston1996">{{cite book|author=Mark David Johnston|title=The Evangelical Rhetoric of Ramon Llull: Lay Learning and Piety in the Christian West Around 1300|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rILmCwAAQBAJ&pg=PA9|year=1996|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=978-0-19-509005-5|pages=9–}}</ref> in order to convert Muslims and schismatic Christians.<ref name="Blum2013">{{cite book|author=Blum, Paul Richard|title=Philosophy of Religion in the Renaissance|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GQBpfzln0zkC&pg=PA1|date=28 June 2013|publisher=Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.|isbn=978-1-4094-8071-6|pages=1–}}</ref> He travelled through Europe to meet [[pope]]s, kings, and princes, trying to establish special colleges to prepare future missionaries.<ref>Paul Richard Blum: Philosophy of Religion in the Renaissance. Ashgate 2010, 1-14</ref> In 1276 a language school for Franciscan missionaries was founded at Miramar, funded by the King of Majorca.<ref name=univbarc>{{Cite web |url=http://quisestlullus.narpan.net/eng/1_intro_eng.html |title="Who was Ramon Llull?", Centre de Documentació Ramon Llull, Universitat de Barcelona |access-date=2011-12-29 |archive-date=2013-03-13 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130313073343/http://quisestlullus.narpan.net/eng/1_intro_eng.html |url-status=dead }}</ref>

About 1291 he went to Tunis, preached to the Saracens, disputed with them in philosophy, and after another brief sojourn in Paris, returned to the East as a missionary.<ref name=Turner>[http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/12670c.htm Turner, William. "Raymond Lully." The Catholic Encyclopedia] Vol. 12. New York: Robert Appleton Company, 1911. 31 January 2019</ref> Llull travelled to Tunis a second time in about 1304, and wrote numerous letters to the king of Tunis, but little else is known about this part of his life.<ref name="Classen2018">{{cite book|author=Albrecht Classen|title=Toleration and Tolerance in Medieval European Literature|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=E1NPDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT280|date=5 March 2018|publisher=Taylor & Francis|isbn=978-1-351-00106-9|pages=280–}}</ref>{{sfn|Bonner|1985|pp=10-11, 34-37}}

He returned in 1308, reporting that the conversion of Muslims should be achieved through prayer, not through military force. He finally achieved his goal of linguistic education at major universities in 1311 when the [[Council of Vienne]] ordered the creation of chairs of [[Hebrew language|Hebrew]], [[Arabic]] and Chaldean ([[Aramaic]]) at the universities of [[Bologna]], [[Oxford]], Paris, and [[Salamanca]] as well as at the Papal Court.<ref name="Classen2018" />

Llull called for the expulsion of Jews who were unwilling to convert to Christianity, and influenced later European monarchs to expel Jews in practice.<ref>[https://www.haaretz.com/jewish/2016-07-22/ty-article/.premium/1306-king-philip-expels-all-frances-jews/0000017f-e6b0-dea7-adff-f7fba8f40000 This Day In Jewish History | 1306: King Philip 'The Fair' Expels All France's Jews]</ref>