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Blood and Faith: The Purging of Muslim Spain
Blood and Faith The Purging of Muslim Spain
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"In this first comprehensive appreciation in many decades of the Muslim expulsion from Spain, Blood and Faith meticulously recaptures the fateful self-mutilation of a society that might have become Europe's first multicultural nation and offers a grim lesson about religious and racial repression in our contemporary age of contested fai... more »
--David Levering Lewis, author of God's Crucible: Islam and the Making of Europe, 570-1215 Seldom does a centuries-old story have such remarkable contemporary resonance. In April 1609, King Philip III of Spain signed an edict denouncing the Muslim inhabitants of Spain as heretics, traitors, and apostates. Later that year, the entire Muslim population of Spain was given three days to leave Spanish territory, on threat of death. In the brutal and traumatic exodus that followed, entire families and communities were obliged to abandon homes and villages where they had lived for generations, leaving their property in the hands of their Christian neighbors. In Aragon and Catalonia, Muslims were escorted by government commissioners who forced them to pay whenever they drank water from a river or took refuge in the shade. For five years the expulsion continued to grind on, until an estimated 300,000 Muslims had been removed from Spanish territory, nearly 5 percent of the total population. By 1614 Spain had successfully implemented what was then the largest act of ethnic cleansing in European history, and Muslim Spain had effectively ceased to exist. Blood and Faith is celebrated journalist Matthew Carr's riveting chronicle of this virtually unknown episode, set against the vivid historical backdrop of Muslim Spain. Here is a remarkable window onto a little-known period in modern Europe--a rich and complex tale of competing faiths and beliefs, of cultural oppression, and of resistance against overwhelming odds.
Author:
"In this first comprehensive appreciation in many decades of the Muslim expulsion from Spain, Blood and Faith meticulously recaptures the fateful self-mutilation of a society that might have become Europe's first multicultural nation and offers a grim lesson about religious and racial repression in our contemporary age of contested fai... more »
--David Levering Lewis, author of God's Crucible: Islam and the Making of Europe, 570-1215 Seldom does a centuries-old story have such remarkable contemporary resonance. In April 1609, King Philip III of Spain signed an edict denouncing the Muslim inhabitants of Spain as heretics, traitors, and apostates. Later that year, the entire Muslim population of Spain was given three days to leave Spanish territory, on threat of death. In the brutal and traumatic exodus that followed, entire families and communities were obliged to abandon homes and villages where they had lived for generations, leaving their property in the hands of their Christian neighbors. In Aragon and Catalonia, Muslims were escorted by government commissioners who forced them to pay whenever they drank water from a river or took refuge in the shade. For five years the expulsion continued to grind on, until an estimated 300,000 Muslims had been removed from Spanish territory, nearly 5 percent of the total population. By 1614 Spain had successfully implemented what was then the largest act of ethnic cleansing in European history, and Muslim Spain had effectively ceased to exist. Blood and Faith is celebrated journalist Matthew Carr's riveting chronicle of this virtually unknown episode, set against the vivid historical backdrop of Muslim Spain. Here is a remarkable window onto a little-known period in modern Europe--a rich and complex tale of competing faiths and beliefs, of cultural oppression, and of resistance against overwhelming odds.
ISBN-13: 9781595583611
ISBN-10: 1595583610
Pages: 350
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ISBN-10: 1595583610
Pages: 350
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Publisher: New Press
Book Type: Hardcover
Other Versions: Paperback
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Book Type: Hardcover
Other Versions: Paperback
Members Wishing: 1
Reviews: Amazon | Write a Review
Genres:
- History >> Europe >> General
- History >> Europe >> Spain
- History >> World >> General
- Religion & Spirituality >> Islam >> History
- Nonfiction >> Social Sciences >> Emigration & Immigration
- Christian Books & Bibles >> Church History >> General
