Kingdoms of Faith
A New History of Islamic Spain
Seiten
2021
C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd (Verlag)
978-1-78738-410-1 (ISBN)
C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd (Verlag)
978-1-78738-410-1 (ISBN)
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.
Prior accounts have portrayed Islamic Spain either as a paradise of enlightened tolerance, or as the site where civilisations clashed. Award-winning historian Brian A. Catlos taps a wide array of original sources to paint a more complex picture, showing how Muslims, Christians, and Jews together built a sophisticated civilisation that transformed the Western world, even as they waged relentless war against each other and amongst themselves. Religion was often the language of conflict, but seldom its cause--a lesson we would do well to learn in our own time.
Kingdoms of Faith rewrites Spain's Islamic past from the ground up, evoking the cultural splendour of al-Andalus and the many forces that shaped it.
Prior accounts have portrayed Islamic Spain either as a paradise of enlightened tolerance, or as the site where civilisations clashed. Award-winning historian Brian A. Catlos taps a wide array of original sources to paint a more complex picture, showing how Muslims, Christians, and Jews together built a sophisticated civilisation that transformed the Western world, even as they waged relentless war against each other and amongst themselves. Religion was often the language of conflict, but seldom its cause--a lesson we would do well to learn in our own time.
Kingdoms of Faith rewrites Spain's Islamic past from the ground up, evoking the cultural splendour of al-Andalus and the many forces that shaped it.
Brian A. Catlos is Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Colorado Boulder. His books have won the American Historical Association's Premio del Rey Award, the John E. Fagg Prize, and the Medieval Academy of America's Charles Homer Haskins Medal. He divides his time between Barcelona, Spain and Boulder, Colorado.
Erscheinungsdatum | 15.01.2021 |
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Verlagsort | London |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 138 x 216 mm |
Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Islam | |
ISBN-10 | 1-78738-410-1 / 1787384101 |
ISBN-13 | 978-1-78738-410-1 / 9781787384101 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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