Moorish SpainBeginning in the year 711 and continuing for nearly a thousand years, the Islamic presence survived in Spain, at times flourishing, and at other times dwindling into warring fiefdoms. But the culture and science thereby brought to Spain, including long-buried knowledge from Greece, largely forgotten during Europe’s Dark Ages, was to have an enduring impact on the country as it emerged into the modern era. In this gracefully written history, Richard Fletcher reveals the Moorish culture in all its fascinating disparity and gives us history at its best: here is vivid storytelling by a renowned scholar. |
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Table des matières
List of Illustrations and Maps xi | 7 |
Romance and Reality 1 | 9 |
The Secret of the Tower | 15 |
The Curve of Conversion | 35 |
The Caliphate of Cordoba | 53 |
The Party Kings | 79 |
The Moroccan Fundamentalists | 105 |
Convivencia | 131 |
Nasrid Granada | 157 |
An August Pomegranate | 171 |
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