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Author : Stanley Lane-Poole
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1886
Category : Arabs
ISBN : BCUL:1092683968
Author : Holly Black
Publisher : Disney Electronic Content
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2019-10-08
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9781368057554
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 : Laila Lalami
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2015-09-22
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781476794129
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 : Richard A. Fletcher,Richard Fletcher
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2006-05-05
Category : History
ISBN : 0520248406
A good introductory picture of the Islamic presence in Spain, from the year 711 until the modern era.
Author : Florian
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1844
Category : History
ISBN : UGA:32108001027021
History of the Moors of Spain by Samuel Green Florian, first published in 1900, is a rare manuscript, the original residing in one of the great libraries of the world. This book is a reproduction of that original, which has been scanned and cleaned by state-of-the-art publishing tools for better readability and enhanced appreciation. Restoration Editors' mission is to bring long out of print manuscripts back to life. Some smudges, annotations or unclear text may still exist, due to permanent damage to the original work. We believe the literary significance of the text justifies offering this reproduction, allowing a new generation to appreciate it.
Author : Stanley Lane-Poole
Publisher : Colchis Books
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2018-04-10
Category : History
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
This classic is organized as follows: I. The Last of the Goths II. The Wave of Conquest III. The People of Andalusia IV. A Young Pretender V. The Christian Martyrs VI. The Great Khalif VII. The Holy War VIII. The City of the Khalif IX. The Prime Minister X. The Berbers in Power XI. My Cid the Challenger XII. The Kingdom of Granada XIII. The Fall of Granada XIV. Bearing the Cross
Author : Halliwell Sutcliffe
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 449 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2023-09-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783387086867
Reproduction of the original. The publishing house Megali specialises in reproducing historical works in large print to make reading easier for people with impaired vision.
Author : Washington Irving
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1837
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0023037131
Author : David Nicolle
Publisher : Osprey Publishing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2001-01-25
Category : History
ISBN : 1855329646
The high point of medieval Islamic expansion was the 700-year presence of the 'Moors' in Spain and Portugal. The Arab and Berber conquest was followed by the establishment of a richly distinct culture in Andalusia, where for a while Muslim and Christian co-operated as often as they fought. The rise and fall of successive Islamic dynasties brought new invaders, fragmentation and disunity; and the growing Christian kingdoms to the north eventually doomed the amirate of Granada, the last Moorish bastion, which fell to the Castilians in 1492. The colourful armies of Western Islam are described and illustrated here in fascinating detail.
Author : Nabil Matar
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2000-10-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9780231505710
During the early modern period, hundreds of Turks and Moors traded in English and Welsh ports, dazzled English society with exotic cuisine and Arabian horses, and worked small jobs in London, while the "Barbary Corsairs" raided coastal towns and, if captured, lingered in Plymouth jails or stood trial in Southampton courtrooms. In turn, Britons fought in Muslim armies, traded and settled in Moroccan or Tunisian harbor towns, joined the international community of pirates in Mediterranean and Atlantic outposts, served in Algerian households and ships, and endured captivity from Salee to Alexandria and from Fez to Mocha. In Turks, Moors, and Englishmen, Nabil Matar vividly presents new data about Anglo-Islamic social and historical interactions. Rather than looking exclusively at literary works, which tended to present unidimensional stereotypes of Muslims—Shakespeare's "superstitious Moor" or Goffe's "raging Turke," to name only two—Matar delves into hitherto unexamined English prison depositions, captives' memoirs, government documents, and Arabic chronicles and histories. The result is a significant alternative to the prevailing discourse on Islam, which nearly always centers around ethnocentrism and attempts at dominance over the non-Western world, and an astonishing revelation about the realities of exchange and familiarity between England and Muslim society in the Elizabethan and early Stuart periods. Concurrent with England's engagement and "discovery" of the Muslims was the "discovery" of the American Indians. In an original analysis, Matar shows how Hakluyt and Purchas taught their readers not only about America but about the Muslim dominions, too; how there were more reasons for Britons to venture eastward than westward; and how, in the period under study, more Englishmen lived in North Africa than in North America. Although Matar notes the sharp political and colonial differences between the English encounter with the Muslims and their encounter with the Indians, he shows how Elizabethan and Stuart writers articulated Muslim in terms of Indian, and Indian in terms of Muslim. By superimposing the sexual constructions of the Indians onto the Muslims, and by applying to them the ideology of holy war which had legitimated the destruction of the Indians, English writers prepared the groundwork for orientalism and for the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century conquest of Mediterranean Islam. Matar's detailed research provides a new direction in the study of England's geographic imagination. It also illuminates the subtleties and interchangeability of stereotype, racism, and demonization that must be taken into account in any responsible depiction of English history.
Author : William Atkins
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2014-05-13
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780571290062
In this deeply personal journey across our nation's most forbidding and most mysterious terrain, William Atkins takes the reader from south to north, in search of the heart of this elusive landscape. His account is both travelogue and natural history, and an exploration of moorland's uniquely captivating position in our literature, history and psyche. Atkins may be a solitary wanderer across these vast expanses, but his journey is full of encounters, busy with the voices of the moors, past and present: murderers and monks, smugglers and priests, gamekeepers and ramblers, miners and poets, developers and environmentalists. As he travels, he shows us that the fierce landscapes we associate with Wuthering Heights and The Hound of the Baskervilles are far from being untouched wildernesses. Daunting and defiant, the moors echo with tales of a country and the people who live in it - a mighty, age-old landscape standing steadfast against the passage of time.
Author : Emily Carroll Bartels
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0812240766
Speaking of the Moor explores why the Moor became a central character on the English stage at the turn of the sixteenth century. Looking closely at key early modern dramatic and historical texts, the book uncovers the Moor's complex identity as a Mediterranean figure poised provocatively between European and non-European worlds.
Author : Jen Silverman
Publisher : Samuel French, Incorporated
Page : 102 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2017-10-23
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0573705402
Two sisters and a dog live out their lives on the bleak English moors, dreaming of love and power. The arrival of a hapless governess and a moor-hen set all three on a strange and dangerous path. The Moors is a dark comedy about love, desperation, and visibility.
Author : Elizabeth Drayson
Publisher : Profile Books
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2017-04-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781782832768
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 : Stanley Lane Poole
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2016-06-18
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1534746064
Stanley Edward Lane-Poole (18 December 1854 - 29 December 1931) was a British orientalist and archaeologist. His uncle was Edward William Lane The Moors in Spain is a lengthy history about the Muslim Moors' presence on the Iberian Peninsula, and their time there until the Spanish took back all the territory near the end of the 15th century.
