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Book The Story of the Moors in Spain

Download or read book The Story of the Moors in Spain written by Stanley Lane-Poole and published by . This book was released on 1886 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Moorish Spain

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  • Author : Richard A. Fletcher
  • Publisher : Univ of California Press
  • Release : 2006-05-05
  • ISBN : 9780520248403
  • Pages : 226 pages

Download or read book Moorish Spain written by Richard A. Fletcher and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2006-05-05 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A good introductory picture of the Islamic presence in Spain, from the year 711 until the modern era.

Book The Story of the Moors in Spain

Download or read book The Story of the Moors in Spain written by Stanley Lane-Poole and published by . This book was released on 1886 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Story of the Moors in Spain  by Stanley Lane Poole  Illustrated

Download or read book The Story of the Moors in Spain by Stanley Lane Poole Illustrated written by Stanley Lane Poole and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-06-18 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Book History of the Moors of Spain

Download or read book History of the Moors of Spain written by Florian and published by . This book was released on 1844 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Book The Moor s Last Stand

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  • Author : Elizabeth Drayson
  • Publisher : Profile Books
  • Release : 2017-04-20
  • ISBN : 1782832769
  • Pages : 180 pages

Download or read book The Moor s Last Stand written by Elizabeth Drayson and published by Profile Books. This book was released on 2017-04-20 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Book The Moors in Spain  History of the Conquest  800 year Rule   The Final Fall of Granada

Download or read book The Moors in Spain History of the Conquest 800 year Rule The Final Fall of Granada written by Stanley Lane-Poole and published by e-artnow. This book was released on 2018-04-22 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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

Book The Jews and Moors in Spain

Download or read book The Jews and Moors in Spain written by Joseph Krauskopf and published by . This book was released on 1886 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This volume is a reprint of newspaper reports of a series of lectures delivered by the author from the pulpit of Congregation B'nai Jehudah, Kansas City, Mo., during the Fall and Winter of 1885-1886. The lectures were prepared to fulfill the requirements of popular discourses, and designed to convey information upon a highly important epoch of the world's history, that is almost neglected in English literature. The thought of publishing these lectures in book form was utterly foreign to the author throughout their preparation, until an urgent solicitation from very many persons, both Jews and Gentiles, in all parts of this country, whose interest in these lectures was aroused by their wide-spread republication by the Press, made it a duty."--Goodreads.com.

Book The Story of the Christians and Moors of Spain

Download or read book The Story of the Christians and Moors of Spain written by Charlotte Mary Yonge and published by . This book was released on 1878 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Blood and Faith

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  • Author : Matthew Carr
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press
  • Release : 2017-02-17
  • ISBN : 1787384357
  • Pages : 442 pages

Download or read book Blood and Faith written by Matthew Carr and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017-02-17 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1609, the entire Muslim population of Spain was given three days to leave Spanish territory or else be killed. In a brutal and traumatic exodus, entire families were forced to abandon the homes and villages where they had lived for generations. In just five years, Muslim Spain had effectively ceased to exist: an estimated 300,000 Muslims had been removed from Spanish territory making it what was then the largest act of ethnic cleansing in European history. Blood and Faith is a riveting chronicle of this virtually unknown episode, set against the vivid historical backdrop of Muslim Spain. It offers a remarkable window onto a little-known period in modern Europe - a rich and complex tale of competing faiths and beliefs, of cultural oppression and resistance against overwhelming odds.

Book When Moors Ruled Spain

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  • Author : Gerald Brenan
  • Publisher : New Word City
  • Release : 2017-01-18
  • ISBN : 1612309941
  • Pages : 25 pages

Download or read book When Moors Ruled Spain written by Gerald Brenan and published by New Word City. This book was released on 2017-01-18 with total page 25 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Less than 100 years after they had hurled themselves out of the desert, Arabs were building in Spain a civilization that lasted almost 800 years and cast a bright ray of light into the Dark Ages of Europe. Here, in this essay by the acclaimed British historian Gerald Brenan, is the story of Moorish Spain.

Book History of the Moorish Empire in Europe

Download or read book History of the Moorish Empire in Europe written by Samuel Parsons Scott and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Moor s Account

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  • Author : Laila Lalami
  • Publisher : Simon and Schuster
  • Release : 2015-09-22
  • ISBN : 147679412X
  • Pages : 336 pages

Download or read book The Moor s Account written by Laila Lalami and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2015-09-22 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Book Kingdoms of Faith

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  • Author : Brian A. Catlos
  • Publisher : Basic Books
  • Release : 2018-05-01
  • ISBN : 0465093167
  • Pages : 496 pages

Download or read book Kingdoms of Faith written by Brian A. Catlos and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 2018-05-01 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A magisterial, myth-dispelling history of Islamic Spain spanning the millennium between the founding of Islam in the seventh century and the final expulsion of Spain's Muslims in the seventeenth In Kingdoms of Faith, award-winning historian Brian A. Catlos rewrites the history of Islamic Spain from the ground up, evoking the cultural splendor of al-Andalus, while offering an authoritative new interpretation of the forces that shaped it. Prior accounts have portrayed Islamic Spain as a paradise of enlightened tolerance or the site where civilizations clashed. Catlos taps a wide array of primary sources to paint a more complex portrait, showing how Muslims, Christians, and Jews together built a sophisticated civilization that transformed the Western world, even as they waged relentless war against each other and their coreligionists. Religion was often the language of conflict, but seldom its cause -- a lesson we would do well to learn in our own time.

Book Golden Age of the Moor

Download or read book Golden Age of the Moor written by Ivan Van Sertima and published by Transaction Pub. This book was released on 1992 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work examines the debt owed by Europe to the Moors for the Renaissance and the significant role played by the African in the Muslim invasions of the Iberian peninsula. While it focuses mainly on Spain and Portugal, it also examines the races and roots of the original North African before the later ethnic mix of the blackamoors and tawny Moors in the medieval period. The study ranges from the Moor in the literature of Cervantes and Shakespeare to his profound influence upon Europe's university system and the diffusion via this system of the ancient and medieval sciences. The Moors are shown to affect not only European mathematics and map-making, agriculture and architecture, but their markets, their music and their machines. The ethnicity of the Moor is re-examined, as is his unique contribution, both as creator and conduit, to the first seminal phase of the industrial revolution.

Book Granada

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  • Author : Alexander M. Grace
  • Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
  • Release : 2016-05-12
  • ISBN : 9781522885320
  • Pages : 732 pages

Download or read book Granada written by Alexander M. Grace and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-05-12 with total page 732 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Granada is a novel set in Spain at the end of the 15th Century. The kingdom of Granada was the last remnant of the Moorish empire in Spain that was gradually being crushed by the armies of the resurgent Christians from the North. At the same time, Granada was the last remnant of the Golden Age of Moslem enlightenment, a culture of religious toleration, intellectual achievement, and scientific study. Into the maelstrom of war are thrown three very different characters, a young Jewish woman whose family has been forced to pretend to convert to Christianity and who is now the target of the Spanish Inquisition, a Moorish intellectual who only wants peace and quiet to study and think, and a brutal Spanish knight, poor but ambitious, with a very dark secret. As the kingdom crumbles, they will struggle to survive both the war and each other.

Book Spanish Islam

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  • Author : Reinhart Pieter Anne Dozy
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1913
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 856 pages

Download or read book Spanish Islam written by Reinhart Pieter Anne Dozy and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 856 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: