By L. P. Harvey

ISBN-10: 0226319636

ISBN-13: 9780226319636

ISBN-10: 0226319644

ISBN-13: 9780226319643

On December 18, 1499, the Muslims in Granada revolted opposed to the Christian urban government's makes an attempt to suppress their rights to stay and worship as fans of Islam. even supposing the Granada insurrection was once a neighborhood phenomenon that used to be quickly contained, next common uprising supplied the Christian executive with an excuse—or justification, as its leaders observed things—to embark at the systematic removal of the Islamic presence from Spain, in addition to from the Iberian Peninsula as an entire, over the following hundred years.

Picking up on the finish of his previous vintage learn, 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 past due 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 commonly, Muslims in Spain, 1500 to 1614, tells the tale of an early glossy state suffering to house range and multiculturalism whereas torn via the fanaticism of the Counter-Reformation on one aspect 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 till 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 detoxification resonates with many glossy matters. Eagerly awaited by way of Islamist and Hispanist students for the reason that Harvey's first quantity seemed in 1990, Muslims in Spain, 1500 to 1614, can be obligatory examining for pupil and expert alike.

“The year’s such a lot profitable ancient paintings is L. P. Harvey’s Muslims in Spain 1500 to 1614, a sobering account of many of the ways that a venerable Islamic tradition fell sufferer to Christian bigotry. Harvey by no means urges the topicality of his topic on us, yet this element unavoidably sharpens an already compelling book.”—Jonathan Keats, Times Literary Supplement

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