Kingdoms of Faith: A New History of Islamic Spain (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780465055876)

A magisterial, myth-dispelling history of Islamic Spain spanning the millennium between the founding of Islam in the seventh century and the final expulsion of Spain's Muslims in the seventeenth

In Kingdoms of Faith, award-winning historian Brian A. Catlos rewrites the history of Islamic Spain from the ground up, evoking the cultural splendor of al-Andalus, while offering an authoritative new interpretation of the forces that shaped it.

Prior accounts have portrayed Islamic Spain as a paradise of enlightened tolerance or the site where civilizations clashed. Catlos taps a wide array of primary sources to paint a more complex portrait, showing how Muslims, Christians, and Jews together built a sophisticated civilization that transformed the Western world, even as they waged relentless war against each other and their coreligionists. Religion was often the language of conflict, but seldom its cause -- a lesson we would do well to learn in our own time.

Author: Brian A. Catlos
ISBN-10: 0465055877
ISBN-13: 9780465055876
Publisher: Basic Books
Language: English
Published: 05/01/2018
Pages: 496
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.85lbs
Size: 9.30h x 5.90w x 1.80d

Review Citation(s):
Choice 11/01/2018
Library Journal 05/01/2018 pg. 74