{"product_id":"caliphs-and-kings-roger-collins-9780631181842","title":"Caliphs and Kings: Spain, 796-1031","description":"\u003cb\u003eCALIPHS AND KINGS: SPAIN, 796-1031\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe last twenty-five years have seen a renaissance of research and writing on Spanish history. \u003cb\u003eCaliphs and Kings \u003c\/b\u003eoffers a formidable synthesis of existing knowledge as well as an investigation into new historical thinking, perspectives, and methods. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe nearly three-hundred-year rule of the Umayyad dynasty in Spain (756-1031) has been hailed by many as an era of unprecedented harmony and mutual tolerance between the three great religious faiths in the Iberian Peninsula - Christianity, Judaism, and Islam - the like of which has never been seen since. And yet, as this book demonstrates, historical reality defies the myth. Though the middle of the tenth century saw a flowering of artistic culture and sophistication in the Umayyad court and in the city of Cdoba, this period was all too shortlived and localized. Eventually, twenty years of civil war caused the implosion of the Umayyad regime. It is through the forces that divided - not united - the disparate elements in Spanish society that we may best glean its nature and its lessons. \u003cb\u003eCaliphs and Kings \u003c\/b\u003eis devoted to better understanding those circumstances, as historian Roger Collins takes a fresh look at certainties, both old and new, to strip ninth- and tenth-century Spain of its mythic narrative, revealing the more complex truth beneath.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Roger Collins\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0631181849\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780631181842\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Wiley-Blackwell\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/07\/2012\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 328\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.20lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.10h x 5.80w x 0.90d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 11\/01\/2012\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Roger Collins","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":43920397697279,"sku":"9780631181842","price":78.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_63bddb72-7360-4a1b-8354-166db2520582.jpg?v=1680815154","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/caliphs-and-kings-roger-collins-9780631181842","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}