A History of Islamic Spain
Author | : William Montgomery Watt |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 210 |
Release | : 1977 |
Genre | : Muslims |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : William Montgomery Watt |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 210 |
Release | : 1977 |
Genre | : Muslims |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Alex J. Novikoff |
Publisher | : I. B. Tauris |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2015-05-29 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781848858718 |
The 'golden age' of Muslim Spain represents one of the most dazzling periods in European history: in its architecture, philosophy, literature, poetry and urbanism. From the middle of the eighth century to the completion of the Reconquista in 1492, the three great Abrahamic faiths – Judaism, Christianity and Islam – shared towns and ports, market places and public spaces, throughout the Iberian peninsula. For much of this period, the territory of modern-day Spain was dominated by the Muslim rulers of the Province of Al-Andalus, particularly the Emirate and then Caliphate of Córdoba, when the city of Córdoba became the most culturally creative and most prosperous cosmopolitan centre in Europe. Perhaps the most remarkable feature of this co-existence was the unique intermingling of three civilizations in one. Some have even viewed multicultural Muslim Spain as a lost and tolerant arcadia. Popular interest in the period has grown also, fuelled in part by the tensions of the modern world, where many people anxiously mull the future of interfaith relations. Despite a surge of interest, until now there has been no adequate up-to-date introductory history of the full diversity of this fascinating period, or of the Islamic inheritance that infuses the culture and landscape of modern Spain.
Author | : Brian A. Catlos |
Publisher | : Basic Books |
Total Pages | : 496 |
Release | : 2018-05-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0465093167 |
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.
Author | : S. H. M. Khan Sabri |
Publisher | : Adam Publishers |
Total Pages | : 658 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Arabs |
ISBN | : 9788174351838 |
Author | : Pierre Cachia |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 197 |
Release | : 2017-07-28 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1351535269 |
The period of Muslim occupation in Spain represents the only significant contact Islam and Europe was ever to have on European soil. In this important as well as fascinating study, Watt traces Islam's influence upon Spain and European civilization - from the collapse of the Visigoths in the eighth century to the fall of Granada in the fifteenth, and considers Spain's importance as a part of the Islamic empire. Particular attention is given to the golden period of economic and political stability achieved under the Umayyads. Without losing themselves in detail and without sacrificing complexity, the authors discuss the political, social, and economic continuity in Islamic Spain, or al-Andalus, in light of its cultural and intellectual effects upon the rest of Europe. Medieval Christianity, Watt points out, found models of scholarship in the Islamic philosophers and adapted the idea of holy war to its own purposes while the final reunification of Spain under the aegis of the Reconquista played a significant role in bringing Europe out of the Middle Ages. A survey essential to anyone seeking a more complete knowledge of European or Islamic history, the volume also includes sections on literature and philology by Pierre Cachia. This series of Islamic surveys is designed to give the educated reader something more than can be found in the usual popular books. Each work undertakes to survey a special part of the field, and to show the present stage of scholarship here. Where there is a clear picture this will be given; but where there are gaps, obscurities and differences of opinion, these will also be indicated. Full and annotated bibliographies will afford guidance to those who want to pursue their studies further. There will also be some account of the nature and extent of the source material. The series is addressed in the first place to the educated reader, with little or no previous knowledge of the subject; its character is such that it should be of value also to
Author | : Richard A. Fletcher |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 226 |
Release | : 2006-05-05 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780520248403 |
A good introductory picture of the Islamic presence in Spain, from the year 711 until the modern era.
Author | : L.P. Harvey |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 387 |
Release | : 2014-05-19 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 022622774X |
This is a richly detailed account of Muslim life throughout the kingdoms of Spain, from the fall of Seville, which signaled the beginning of the retreat of Islam, to the Christian reconquest. "Harvey not only examines the politics of the Nasrids, but also the Islamic communities in the Christian kingdoms of the peninsula. This innovative approach breaks new ground, enables the reader to appreciate the situation of all Spanish Muslims and is fully vindicated. . . . An absorbing and thoroughly informed narrative."—Richard Hitchcock, Times Higher Education Supplement "L. P. Harvey has produced a beautifully written account of an enthralling subject."—Peter Linehan, The Observer
Author | : Brian A. Catlos |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 498 |
Release | : 2018 |
Genre | : HISTORY |
ISBN | : 1787380033 |
A magisterial, myth-dispelling history of Islamic Spain, from the founding of Islam to the final expulsion of Spain's Muslims in the seventeenth century.
Author | : Syed M. Imamuddin |
Publisher | : Brill Archive |
Total Pages | : 308 |
Release | : 1981 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Eloy Martín-Corrales |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 699 |
Release | : 2020-12-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9004443762 |
In Muslims in Spain, 1492-1814: Living and Negotiating in the Land of the Infidel, Eloy Martín-Corrales surveys Hispano-Muslim relations from the late fifteenth to the eighteenth centuries, a period of chronic hostilities. Nonetheless there were thousands of Muslims in Spain at that time: ambassadors, exiles, merchants, converts, and travelers. Their negotiating strategies, and the necessary support they found on both shores of the Mediterranean prove that relations between Spaniards and Muslims were based on reasons of state and on a pragmatism that generated intense political and economic ties.These increased enormously after the peace treaties that Spain signed with Muslim countries between 1767 and 1791.