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Author : Vivian B Mann
Release : 1992
Genre : Antiques & Collectibles
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 866/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Convivencia Jews Christians and Muslims in Medieval Spain by : Vivian B Mann
Download or read book Convivencia Jews Christians and Muslims in Medieval Spain written by Vivian B Mann. This book was released on 1992. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Negative and positive.
Author : Mark T. Abate
Release : 2018-11-14
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 81X/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Convivencia and Medieval Spain by : Mark T. Abate
Download or read book Convivencia and Medieval Spain written by Mark T. Abate. This book was released on 2018-11-14. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume is a collection of essays on medieval Spain, written by leading scholars on three continents, that celebrates the career of Thomas F. Glick. Using a wide array of innovative methodological approaches, these essays offer insights on areas of medieval Iberian history that have been of particular interest to Glick: irrigation, the history of science, and cross-cultural interactions between Jews, Christians, and Muslims. By bringing together original research on topics ranging from water management and timekeeping to poetry and women’s history, this volume crosses disciplinary boundaries and reflects the wide-ranging, gap-bridging work of Glick himself, a pivotal figure in the historiography of medieval Spain.
Author : Vivian B Mann
Release : 1992
Genre : Antiques & Collectibles
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : /5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Convivencia Jews Christians and Muslims in Medieval Spain by : Vivian B Mann
Download or read book Convivencia Jews Christians and Muslims in Medieval Spain written by Vivian B Mann. This book was released on 1992. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Negative and positive.
Author : Dario Fernandez-Morera
Release : 2023-07-11
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 293/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Myth of the Andalusian Paradise by : Dario Fernandez-Morera
Download or read book The Myth of the Andalusian Paradise written by Dario Fernandez-Morera. This book was released on 2023-07-11. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A finalist for World Magazine's Book of the Year! Scholars, journalists, and even politicians uphold Muslim-ruled medieval Spain—"al-Andalus"—as a multicultural paradise, a place where Muslims, Christians, and Jews lived in harmony. There is only one problem with this widely accepted account: it is a myth. In this groundbreaking book, Northwestern University scholar Darío Fernández-Morera tells the full story of Islamic Spain. The Myth of the Andalusian Paradise shines light on hidden history by drawing on an abundance of primary sources that scholars have ignored, as well as archaeological evidence only recently unearthed. This supposed beacon of peaceful coexistence began, of course, with the Islamic Caliphate's conquest of Spain. Far from a land of religious tolerance, Islamic Spain was marked by religious and therefore cultural repression in all areas of life and the marginalization of Christians and other groups—all this in the service of social control by autocratic rulers and a class of religious authorities. The Myth of the Andalusian Paradise provides a desperately needed reassessment of medieval Spain. As professors, politicians, and pundits continue to celebrate Islamic Spain for its "multiculturalism" and "diversity," Fernández-Morera sets the historical record straight—showing that a politically useful myth is a myth nonetheless.
Author : Brian A. Catlos
Release : 2018-05-01
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 167/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Kingdoms of Faith by : Brian A. Catlos
Download or read book Kingdoms of Faith written by Brian A. Catlos. This book was released on 2018-05-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A magisterial, myth-dispelling history of Islamic Spain spanning the millennium between the founding of Islam in the seventh century and the final expulsion of Spain's Muslims in the seventeenth In Kingdoms of Faith, award-winning historian Brian A. Catlos rewrites the history of Islamic Spain from the ground up, evoking the cultural splendor of al-Andalus, while offering an authoritative new interpretation of the forces that shaped it. Prior accounts have portrayed Islamic Spain as a paradise of enlightened tolerance or the site where civilizations clashed. Catlos taps a wide array of primary sources to paint a more complex portrait, showing how Muslims, Christians, and Jews together built a sophisticated civilization that transformed the Western world, even as they waged relentless war against each other and their coreligionists. Religion was often the language of conflict, but seldom its cause -- a lesson we would do well to learn in our own time.
