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Chris LowneyPublication Details
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In a world troubled by religious strife and division, Chris Lowney’s vividly written new book offers a hopeful historical reminder: Muslims, Christians, and Jews once lived together in Spain, creating a centuries-long flowering of commerce, culture, art, and architecture. No less astonishing than medieval Spain’s wide-ranging accomplishments was the simple fact its Muslims, Christians, and Jews often managed to live and work side by side, bestowing tolerance and freedom of worship on the religious minorities in their midst. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Subject
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- "In a world troubled by religious strife and division, Chris Lowney’s book offers a hopeful historical reminder: Muslims, Christians, and Jews once lived together in Spain, creating a centuries-long flowering of commerce, culture, art, and architecture. Written with a narrative drive reminiscent of Barbara Tuchman’s A Distant Mirror, this new work takes us back to a medieval Iberia that prefigured the Renaissance."–BOOK JACKET
Contents
- 1. Spain before Islam
- 2. The Moors conquer Spain
- 3. Santiago discovered in the field of stars
- 4. Martyr- activists
- 5. The pope who learned math from Muslim Spain
- 6. Europe’s busiest highway
- 7. A Jewish general in a Muslim kingdom
- 8. The frontier
- 9. Charlemagne
- 10. El Cid
- 11. The second Moses and medieval medicine
- 12. Rethinking religion
- 13. A Muslim commentator englightens Christendom
- 14. Sufism - - 15. The Kabbalah
- 16. Fernando III
- 17. A common life shared among three faiths
- 18. Alfonso the learned king
- 19. The end of Spanish Judaism
- 20. Columbus, a new world, and the end of history
ISBN
- 0743243595
- 9780743243599
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