Muslims in Spain, 1500 to 1614 by Harvey, L. P - 2005

University of Chicago Press, 2005-05-16. Hardcover. Very Good. hardcover with dust jacket, tight, pages clear and bright, shelf and edge wear, corners bumped, rubbed spot on inside front cover where sticker was removed, packaged in cardboard box for shipment, tracking on U.S. orders

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University of Chicago Press, 2005-05-16. Hardcover. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!

Hardback. New. On December 18, 1499, the Muslims in Granada revolted against the Christian city government's attempts to suppress their rights to live and worship as followers of Islam. Although the Granada riot was a local phenomenon that was soon contained, subsequent widespread rebellion provided the Christian government with an excuse or justification, as its leaders saw things to embark on the systematic elimination of the Islamic presencefrom Spain, as well as from the Iberian Peninsula as a whole, over the next hundred years. Picking up at the end of his earlier classic study, "Islamic Spain, 1250 to 1500 " which described the courageous efforts of the followers of Islam to preserve their secular, as well as sacred, culture in late medieval Spain L. P. Harvey chronicles here the struggles of the Moriscos. These forced converts to Christianity lived clandestinely in the sixteenth century as Muslims, communicating in "aljamiado " Spanish written in Arabic… Read More

Univ of Chicago Pr, 2005. Hardcover. New. 1st edition. 462 pages. 9.00x6.00x1.50 inches.