The Moor S Last Stand

Author : Elizabeth Drayson
Publisher : Profile Books
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2017-04-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781782832768

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The Moor's Last Stand by Elizabeth Drayson Pdf

In 1482, Abu Abdallah Muhammad XI became the twenty-third Muslim King of Granada. He would be the last. This is the first history of the ruler, known as Boabdil, whose disastrous reign and bitter defeat brought seven centuries of Moorish Spain to an end. It is an action-packed story of intrigue, treachery, cruelty, cunning, courtliness, bravery and tragedy. Basing her vivid account on original documents and sources, Elizabeth Drayson traces the origins and development of Islamic Spain. She describes the thirteenth-century founding of the Nasrid dynasty, the cultured and stable society it created, and the feuding which threatened it and had all but destroyed it by 1482, when Boabdil seized the throne. The new Sultan faced betrayals by his family, factions in the Alhambra palace, and ever more powerful onslaughts from the forces of Ferdinand and Isabella, monarchs of the newly united kingdoms of Castile and Aragon. By stratagem, diplomacy, courage and strength of will Boabdil prolonged his reign for ten years, but he never had much chance of survival. In 1492 Ferdinand and Isabella, magnificently attired in Moorish costume, entered Granada and took possession of the city. Boabdil went into exile. The Christian reconquest of Spain, that has reverberated so powerfully down the centuries, was complete.

Author : Salman Rushdie
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 449 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1997-01-14
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780679744665

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The Moor's Last Sigh by Salman Rushdie Pdf

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • The Booker Prize-winning, bestselling author of Midnight's Children and The Satanic Verses combines a ferociously witty family saga with a surreally imagined and sometimes blasphemous chronicle of modern India and flavors the mixture with peppery soliloquies on art, ethnicity, religious fanaticism, and the terrifying power of love. “Fierce, phantasmagorical … a huge, sprawling, exuberant novel.” —The New York Times Moraes "Moor" Zogoiby, the last surviving scion of a dynasty of Cochinese spice merchants and crime lords, is also a compulsive storyteller and an exile. As he travels a route that takes him from India to Spain, he leaves behind a tale of mad passions and volcanic family hatreds, of titanic matriarchs and their mesmerized offspring, of premature deaths and curses that strike beyond the grave.

Author : Salman Rushdie
Publisher : Vintage Canada
Page : 594 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2011-11-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307367792

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The Ground Beneath Her Feet by Salman Rushdie Pdf

"The first great rock ’n’ roll novel in the English language." --The Times On Valentine’s Day, 1989, Vina Apsara, a famous and much-loved singer, disappears in a devastating earthquake. Her lover, the singer Ormus Cama, cannot accept that he has lost her, and so begins his eternal quest to find her and bring her back. His journey takes him across the globe and through cities pulsating with the power of rock ’n’ roll, to Bombay, London and New York. But around the star-crossed lover and his quest, the uncertain world itself is beginning to tremble and break. Cracks and tears are appearing in the very fabric of reality, and exposing the abyss beyond. And Ormus has to confront just how far he is willing to go for love. In this epic romance that stretches across whole lives, and even beyond death, Salman Rushdie's most accessible novel is also a vivid account of the intimate, flawed encounter between East and West, a remaking of the myth of Orpheus, and an exploration of the extremities of comedy, culture and desire. The Ground Beneath Her Feet is a gripping story that encapsulates the history, dreams and passions of the last half century as no other novel has done.

Author : Matthew Carr
Publisher : Hurst Publishers
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 46,7 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 : Laila Lalami
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2015-09-22
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781476794129

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The Moor's Account by Laila Lalami Pdf

An “exquisite piece of historical fiction” (Winnipeg Free Press), The Moor’s Account is “brilliantly imagined fiction…rewritten to give us something that feels very like the truth” (Salman Rushdie). In 1527, the conquistador Pánfilo de Narváez left the port of San Lucar de Barrameda in Spain with a crew of more than five hundred men. His goal was to claim what is now the Gulf Coast of the United States for the Spanish crown and, in the process, become as wealthy and as famous as Hernán Cortés. But from the moment the Narváez expedition reached Florida it met with incredibly bad luck—storms, disease, starvation, hostile Indians. Within a year, there were only four survivors: the expedition’s treasurer, Cabeza de Vaca; a Spanish nobleman named Alonso del Castillo Maldonado; a young explorer by the name of Andrés Dorantes; and his Moroccan slave, Mustafa al-Zamori. The four survivors were forced to live as slaves to the Indians for six years, before fleeing and establishing themselves as faith healers. Together, they traveled on foot through present-day Florida, Texas, New Mexico, and Arizona, gathering thousands of disciples and followers along the way. In 1536, they crossed the Rio Grande into Mexican territory, where they stumbled on a group of Spanish slavers, who escorted them to the capital of the Spanish empire, México-Tenochtitlán. Three of the survivors were asked to provide testimony of their journey—Castillo, Dorantes, and Cabeza de Vaca, who later wrote a book about this adventure, called La Relacíon, or The Account. But because he was a slave, Estebanico was not asked to testify. His experience was considered irrelevant, or superfluous, or unreliable, or unworthy, despite the fact that he had acted as a scout, an interpreter, and a translator. This novel is his story.

Author : Ruth Rendell
Publisher : Fawcett
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2012-11-21
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307829511

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Master of the Moor by Ruth Rendell Pdf

Stephen Whalby loves to walk the moor. He considers it his, although he and his young wife Lyn are merely tenants in a flat nearby. But the senseless and frightening murder of a young woman invades Stephen's sense of privacy and pollutes his beloved moor with suspicion and dread. And then a second murder captures his imagination in an unpredictable and fascinating way . . .

Author : Holly Black
Publisher : Disney Electronic Content
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2019-10-08
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9781368057554

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Heart of the Moors by Holly Black Pdf

From New York Times bestselling author Holly Black comes a captivating original novel set between Disney's Maleficent and Maleficent: Mistress of Evil, in which newly-queened Aurora struggles to be the best leader to both the humans and Fair Folk under her reign; her beau, Prince Phillip, longs to get to know Aurora and her kingdom better; and Maleficent has trouble letting go of the past.

Author : Stanley Lane-Poole
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1886
Category : Arabs
ISBN : PURD:32754003738261

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The Moors in Spain by Stanley Lane-Poole Pdf

Author : Arthur Gilman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1888
Category : Arabs
ISBN : BML:37001103594367

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The Moors in Spain by Arthur Gilman Pdf

Author : Stanley Lane-Poole
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 191 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2023-11-17
Category : History
ISBN : EAN:8596547669227

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The Moors in Spain: History of the Conquest, 800 year Rule & The Final Fall of Granada by Stanley Lane-Poole Pdf

This carefully crafted ebook is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. In 711 the Islamic Moors of Arab and Berber descent in North Africa crossed the Strait of Gibraltar onto the Iberian Peninsula, and in a series of raids they conquered Visigothic Christian Hispania and founded the first Muslim countries in Europe. Contents: The Last of the Goths The Wave of Conquest The People of Andalusia A Young Pretender The Christian Martyrs The Great Khalif The Holy War The City of the Khalif The Prime Minister The Berbers in Power My Cid the Challenger The Kingdom of Granada The Fall of Granada Bearing the Cross

Author : Stanley Lane-Poole
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1886
Category : Electronic
ISBN : HARVARD:FL2854

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The Story of the Moors in Spain by Stanley Lane-Poole Pdf

Author : Stanley Lane-Poole
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 191 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2024-01-18
Category : History
ISBN : EAN:8596547814320

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The History of Moors in Spain by Stanley Lane-Poole Pdf

In 711 the Islamic Moors of Arab and Berber descent in North Africa crossed the Strait of Gibraltar onto the Iberian Peninsula, and in a series of raids they conquered Visigothic Christian Hispania and founded the first Muslim countries in Europe. Contents: The Last of the Goths The Wave of Conquest The People of Andalusia A Young Pretender The Christian Martyrs The Great Khalif The Holy War The City of the Khalif The Prime Minister The Berbers in Power My Cid the Challenger The Kingdom of Granada The Fall of Granada Bearing the Cross

Author : Stanley Lane-Poole
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1912
Category : Arabs
ISBN : MINN:31951002461059V

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The Moors in Spain by Stanley Lane-Poole Pdf

What don't we know, and why don't we know it? What keeps ignorance alive, or allows it to be used as a political instrument? This book provides a theoretical perspective to broaden traditional questions about "how we know" to ask: Why don't we know what we don't know? It shows that ignorance is often more than just an absence of knowledge.

Author : Stanley Lane-Poole
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 191 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2023-11-30
Category : History
ISBN : EAN:8596547682219

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The History of Moors in Spain: From the Islamic Conquest until the Fall of Kingdom of Granada by Stanley Lane-Poole Pdf

This eBook edition of "The History of Moors in Spain: From the Islamic Conquest until the Fall of Kingdom of Granada" has been formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. In 711 the Islamic Moors of Arab and Berber descent in North Africa crossed the Strait of Gibraltar onto the Iberian Peninsula, and in a series of raids they conquered Visigothic Christian Hispania and founded the first Muslim countries in Europe. Contents: The Last of the Goths The Wave of Conquest The People of Andalusia A Young Pretender The Christian Martyrs The Great Khalif The Holy War The City of the Khalif The Prime Minister The Berbers in Power My Cid the Challenger The Kingdom of Granada The Fall of Granada Bearing the Cross

Author : Stanley Lane-Poole
Publisher : e-artnow
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2018-11-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9788027244812

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The Story of Moors in Spain by Stanley Lane-Poole Pdf

This eBook has been formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. In 711 the Islamic Moors of Arab and Berber descent in North Africa crossed the Strait of Gibraltar onto the Iberian Peninsula, and in a series of raids they conquered Visigothic Christian Hispania and founded the first Muslim countries in Europe. Contents: The Last of the Goths The Wave of Conquest The People of Andalusia A Young Pretender The Christian Martyrs The Great Khalif The Holy War The City of the Khalif The Prime Minister The Berbers in Power My Cid the Challenger The Kingdom of Granada The Fall of Granada Bearing the Cross