Kingdoms of Faith: A New History of Islamic Spain (UK Edition)
Kingdoms of Faith: A New History of Islamic Spain (UK Edition) by Brian A. Catlos
English | July 5, 2018 | ISBN: 1787380033 | EPUB | 496 pages | 16.2 MB
English | July 5, 2018 | ISBN: 1787380033 | EPUB | 496 pages | 16.2 MB
Prior accounts have portrayed Islamic Spain either as a paradise of enlightened tolerance, or as the site where civilisations clashed. Award-winning historian Brian A. Catlos taps a wide array of original sources to paint a more complex picture, showing how Muslims, Christians, and Jews together built a sophisticated civilisation that transformed the Western world, even as they waged relentless war against each other and amongst themselves. Religion was often the language of conflict, but seldom its cause-a lesson we would do well to learn in our own time.
Kingdoms of Faith rewrites Spain's Islamic past from the ground up, evoking the cultural splendour of al-Andalus and the many forces that shaped it.