By L. P. Harvey
ISBN-10: 0226319636
ISBN-13: 9780226319636
ISBN-10: 0226319644
ISBN-13: 9780226319643
Picking up on the finish of his prior vintage examine, Islamic Spain, 1250 to 1500— which defined the brave efforts of the fans of Islam to maintain their secular, in addition to sacred, tradition in overdue medieval Spain—L. P. Harvey chronicles right here the struggles of the Moriscos. those compelled converts to Christianity lived clandestinely within the 16th century as Muslims, speaking in aljamiado— Spanish written in Arabic characters. extra widely, Muslims in Spain, 1500 to 1614, tells the tale of an early sleek country suffering to accommodate range and multiculturalism whereas torn by means of the fanaticism of the Counter-Reformation on one facet and the specter of Ottoman enlargement at the different. Harvey recounts how a century of tolerance degenerated right into a vicious cycle of repression and uprising until eventually the ultimate expulsion in 1614 of all Muslims from the Iberian Peninsula.
Retold in all its complexity and poignancy, this story of non secular intolerance, political maneuvering, and ethnic detoxing resonates with many smooth matters. Eagerly awaited by way of Islamist and Hispanist students considering that Harvey's first quantity seemed in 1990, Muslims in Spain, 1500 to 1614, can be obligatory interpreting for pupil and expert alike.
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