Blood and Faith: The Purging of Muslim SpainThe New Press, 11/08/2009 - 368 من الصفحات 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 a brutal and traumatic exodus, 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 the history 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 resistance against overwhelming odds. |
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... Granada in the southeast corner of Spain remained in Muslim control. For more than two hundred fifty years, Granada was able to preserve a fragile independence under the Nasrid dynasty as a vassal state of Castile. Though the Nasrids ...
... Granada in the southeast corner of Spain remained in Muslim control. For more than two hundred fifty years, Granada was able to preserve a fragile independence under the Nasrid dynasty as a vassal state of Castile. Though the Nasrids ...
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... Granada itself. By the summer of 1491, the city celebrated by Christian and Muslim poets alike was in desperate straits. From the Alhambra, Boabdil and his courtiers could see the tents, flags, and banners of the Christian armies camped ...
... Granada itself. By the summer of 1491, the city celebrated by Christian and Muslim poets alike was in desperate straits. From the Alhambra, Boabdil and his courtiers could see the tents, flags, and banners of the Christian armies camped ...
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... Granada.” Such was the intensity of emotion that hardbitten soldiers wept openly and embraced each other. Isabella, the “great lioness” of Castile, knelt in prayer, and the entire army followed suit as the choir of the royal chapel sang ...
... Granada.” Such was the intensity of emotion that hardbitten soldiers wept openly and embraced each other. Isabella, the “great lioness” of Castile, knelt in prayer, and the entire army followed suit as the choir of the royal chapel sang ...
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... Granada marked the glorious conclusion to a “holy and laudable conquest,” which proved that both Spain and its rulers were divinely blessed.5 To Peter Martyr of Anghieri, an Italian scholar at the Castilian court, the end of Iberian ...
... Granada marked the glorious conclusion to a “holy and laudable conquest,” which proved that both Spain and its rulers were divinely blessed.5 To Peter Martyr of Anghieri, an Italian scholar at the Castilian court, the end of Iberian ...
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... Granada. Such tolerance was not constant or universal. In 1066 as many as three thousand Jews may have been massacred in Granada in a popular pogrom whose causes have never been clear. There was a great difference between the way Jews ...
... Granada. Such tolerance was not constant or universal. In 1066 as many as three thousand Jews may have been massacred in Granada in a popular pogrom whose causes have never been clear. There was a great difference between the way Jews ...
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The Iberian Exception | |
The Victors | |
Granada 14921500 | |
Aragon 15201526 | |
A House Full of Snakes and Scorpions | |
15561568 | |
The Granada Pragmatic Chapter 12 A Dirty Little War | |
Defeat and Punishment Part III Catastrophe Chapter 14 The Great Fear | |
The Vilest of People | |
Toward Expulsion | |
15981609 | |
The Agreeable Holocaust | |
Index | |
Parallel Lives | |
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