Muslim Spain Reconsidered

Author : Richard Hitchcock
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2014-02-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780748678297

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Muslim Spain Reconsidered by Richard Hitchcock Pdf

"e;This introduction to Muslim Spain covers the period from 711 to1502, giving readers a substantial overview of what it was that made it a unique and successful society, and of its powerful legacy in the formation of modern Spain. Using a chronological framework and pushing the main historical developments to the forefront, the author keeps in view the shifting social patterns caused by the changing balance between town and country, major and minor dynasties, foreign groupings and repeated invasions from North Africa. He also includes discussion of topics such as inter-faith relations, multi-ethnic competing groups, and how intellectual life was enriched by pluralism and influence from abroad. "e;

Author : Professor W Montgomery Watt,Pierre Cachia
Publisher : Transaction Publishers
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : 0202309363

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A History of Islamic Spain by Professor W Montgomery Watt,Pierre Cachia Pdf

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 university students and others whose interest is of a more professional kind.

Author : Frank Peters
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 43 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2010-05
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780199806256

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Muslim Spain: Oxford Bibliographies Online Research Guide by Frank Peters Pdf

This ebook is a selective guide designed to help scholars and students of Islamic studies find reliable sources of information by directing them to the best available scholarly materials in whatever form or format they appear from books, chapters, and journal articles to online archives, electronic data sets, and blogs. Written by a leading international authority on the subject, the ebook provides bibliographic information supported by direct recommendations about which sources to consult and editorial commentary to make it clear how the cited sources are interrelated related. A reader will discover, for instance, the most reliable introductions and overviews to the topic, and the most important publications on various areas of scholarly interest within this topic. In Islamic studies, as in other disciplines, researchers at all levels are drowning in potentially useful scholarly information, and this guide has been created as a tool for cutting through that material to find the exact source you need. This ebook is a static version of an article from Oxford Bibliographies Online: Islamic Studies, a dynamic, continuously updated, online resource designed to provide authoritative guidance through scholarship and other materials relevant to the study of the Islamic religion and Muslim cultures. Oxford Bibliographies Online covers most subject disciplines within the social science and humanities, for more information visit www.aboutobo.com.

Author : Syed M. Imamuddin
Publisher : Brill Archive
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Muslim Spain by Syed M. Imamuddin Pdf

Author : S. H. M. Khan Sabri
Publisher : Adam Publishers
Page : 658 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Arabs
ISBN : 8174351833

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History of Muslim Spain by S. H. M. Khan Sabri Pdf

Author : William Montgomery Watt
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2019-08-08
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781474473446

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History of Islamic Spain by William Montgomery Watt Pdf

This comprehensive introduction to the history of Islamic Spain takes thereader through the events, people and movements from 711 to 1492.

Author : Alex J. Novikoff
Publisher : I. B. Tauris
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2015-05-29
Category : History
ISBN : 184885871X

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A Short History of Muslim Spain by Alex J. Novikoff Pdf

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 : Syed Azizur Rahman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 702 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Social Science
ISBN : STANFORD:36105112266742

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The Story of Islamic Spain by Syed Azizur Rahman Pdf

The author of this book, feels that only a few books cover the entire period of eight centuries of Muslim presence in the Iberian Peninsula. This book attempts to cover the entire period from Tariq s landing in Spain to the expulsion of the Muslims in the first decade of the 17th century. Part II of the book covers in detail the Hispano-Muslim culture.

Author : Jessica Coope
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2017-04-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9780472130283

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The Most Noble of People by Jessica Coope Pdf

Negotiates ethnic, religious, and gender identity amid turbulent social change in medieval Islamic Spain

Author : Matthew Carr
Publisher : Hurst Publishers
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : History
ISBN : 9781849040273

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Blood and Faith by Matthew Carr Pdf

In 1609, King Philip III signed an edict denouncing the Muslim inhabitants of Spain as heretics, traitors, and apostates. Later that year, the entireMuslim population was given three days to leave Spanish territory, on threat of death. In a brutal and traumatic exodus, entire families and communitieswere obliged to abandon homes and villages where they had lived for generations. By 1614 Muslim Spain had effectively ceased to exist. Blood and Faith is Matthew Carrs riveting chronicle of this virtually unknown episode, set against the vivid historical backdrop of the history of Muslim Spain.

Author : Various
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2016-07-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134985838

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Routledge Library Editions: Muslim Spain by Various Pdf

This three-volume set of previously out-of-print titles closely examines three key aspects of Muslim Spain: the Muslim conquest and settlement, together with its political and economic administration; spirituality in the region; and El Cid and the Spanish reconquest. Together they form an important overview of the period and the region.

Author : Dario Fernandez-Morera
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2023-07-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781684516292

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The Myth of the Andalusian Paradise by Dario Fernandez-Morera Pdf

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
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 498 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : HISTORY
ISBN : 9781787380035

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Kingdoms of Faith by Brian A. Catlos Pdf

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 : Duncan Townson
Publisher : Lerner Publications
Page : 62 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : UOM:39076002196470

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Muslim Spain by Duncan Townson Pdf

Details that period of Spanish history and civilization when the Muslims invaded and took over the Iberian peninsula, parts of which they controlled for nearly 800 years.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2018-05-07
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789004364998

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Observing Islam in Spain by Anonim Pdf

Observing Islam in Spain pools multidisciplinary research experiences on Islam, providing original and explanatory findings on the social processes that have developed in recent decades around the so-called new presence of Islam in Spain.