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Prior accounts have portrayed Islamic Spain either as a paradise of
enlightened tolerance, or as the site where civilisations clashed.
Award-winning historian Brian A. Catlos taps a wide array of
original sources to paint a more complex picture, showing how
Muslims, Christians, and Jews together built a sophisticated
civilisation that transformed the Western world, even as they waged
relentless war against each other and amongst themselves. Religion
was often the language of conflict, but seldom its cause--a lesson
we would do well to learn in our own time. Kingdoms of Faith
rewrites Spain's Islamic past from the ground up, evoking the
cultural splendour of al-Andalus and the many forces that shaped
it.
This book provides a systematic framework for the emerging field of
Mediterranean studies, collecting essays from scholars of history,
literature, religion, and art history that seek a more fluid
understanding of "Mediterranean." It emphasizes the interdependence
of Mediterranean regions and the rich interaction (both peaceful
and bellicose, at sea and on land) between them. It avoids applying
the national, cultural and ethnic categories that developed with
the post-Enlightenment domination of northwestern Europe over the
academy, working instead towards a dynamic and thoroughly
interdisciplinary picture of the Mediterranean. Including an
extensive bibliography and a conversation between leading scholars
in the field, Can We Talk Mediterranean? lays the groundwork for a
new critical and conceptual approach to the region.
Texts from the Middle is a companion primary source reader to the
textbook The Sea in the Middle. It can be used alone or in
conjunction with the textbook, providing an original history of the
Middle Ages that places the Mediterranean at the geographical
center of the study of the period from 650 to 1650. Building on the
textbook's unique approach, these sources center on the
Mediterranean and emphasize the role played by peoples and cultures
of Africa, Asia, and Europe in an age when Christians, Muslims, and
Jews of various denominations engaged with each other in both
conflict and collaboration. The supplementary reader mirrors the
main text's fifteen-chapter structure, providing six sources per
chapter. The two texts pair together to provide a framework and
materials that guide students through this complex but essential
history-one that will appeal to the diverse student bodies of
today.
The Sea in the Middle presents an original and revisionist
narrative of the development of the medieval west from late
antiquity to the dawn of modernity. This textbook is uniquely
centered on the Mediterranean and emphasizes the role played by
peoples and cultures of Africa, Asia, and Europe in an age when
Christians, Muslims, and Jews of various denominations engaged with
each other in both conflict and collaboration. Key features:
Fifteen-chapter structure to aid classroom use Sections in each
chapter that feature key artifacts relevant to chapter themes
Dynamic visuals, including 190 photos and 20 maps The Sea in the
Middle and its sourcebook companion, Texts from the Middle, pair
together to provide a framework and materials that guide students
through this complex but essential history-one that will appeal to
the diverse student bodies of today.
This is a revisionary study of Muslims living under Christian rule
during the Spanish 'reconquest'. It looks beyond the obvious
religious distinctions and delves into the subtleties of identity
in the thirteenth-century Crown of Aragon, uncovering a social
dynamic in which sectarian differences comprise only one of the
many factors in the causal complex of political, economic and
cultural reactions. Beginning with the final stage of independent
Muslim rule in the Ebro valley region, the book traces the
transformation of Islamic society into mudejar society under
Christian domination. This was a case of social evolution in which
Muslims, far from being passive victims of foreign colonisation,
took an active part in shaping their institutions and experiences
as subjects of the Infidel. Using a diverse range of methodological
approaches, this book challenges widely held assumptions concerning
Christian-Muslim relations in the Middle Ages, and
minority-majority relations in general.
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.
Through crusades and expulsions, Muslim communities survived for
over 500 years, thriving in medieval Europe. This comprehensive
study explores how the presence of Islamic minorities transformed
Europe in everything from architecture to cooking, literature to
science, and served as a stimulus for Christian society to define
itself. Combining a series of regional studies, Catlos compares the
varied experiences of Muslims across Iberia, southern Italy, the
Crusader Kingdoms and Hungary to examine those ideologies that
informed their experiences, their place in society and their sense
of themselves as Muslims. This is a pioneering new narrative of the
history of medieval and early modern Europe from the perspective of
Islamic minorities; one which is not, as we might first assume,
driven by ideology, isolation and decline, but instead one in which
successful communities persisted because they remained actively
integrated within the larger Christian and Jewish societies in
which they lived.
Through crusades and expulsions, Muslim communities survived for
over 500 years, thriving in medieval Europe. This comprehensive
study explores how the presence of Islamic minorities transformed
Europe in everything from architecture to cooking, literature to
science, and served as a stimulus for Christian society to define
itself. Combining a series of regional studies, Catlos compares the
varied experiences of Muslims across Iberia, southern Italy, the
Crusader Kingdoms and Hungary to examine those ideologies that
informed their experiences, their place in society and their sense
of themselves as Muslims. This is a pioneering new narrative of the
history of medieval and early modern Europe from the perspective of
Islamic minorities; one which is not, as we might first assume,
driven by ideology, isolation and decline, but instead one in which
successful communities persisted because they remained actively
integrated within the larger Christian and Jewish societies in
which they lived.
This is a revisionary study of Muslims living under Christian rule
during the Spanish 'reconquest'. It looks beyond the obvious
religious distinctions and delves into the subtleties of identity
in the thirteenth-century Crown of Aragon, uncovering a social
dynamic in which sectarian differences comprise only one of the
many factors in the causal complex of political, economic and
cultural reactions. Beginning with the final stage of independent
Muslim rule in the Ebro valley region, the book traces the
transformation of Islamic society into mudejar society under
Christian domination. This was a case of social evolution in which
Muslims, far from being passive victims of foreign colonisation,
took an active part in shaping their institutions and experiences
as subjects of the Infidel. Using a diverse range of methodological
approaches, this book challenges widely held assumptions concerning
Christian-Muslim relations in the Middle Ages, and
minority-majority relations in general.
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