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Auteur(s) : Catlos, Brian A. (1966-....)
Titre(s) : Kingdoms of faith [Texte imprimé] : a new history of Islamic Spain / Brian A. Catlos
Édition : First ed.
Publication : New York (N.Y.) : Basic Books, copyright 2018
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (XI, 482 p.) : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Note(s) : Bibliogr. p. 451-458. Index
"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 helped transform 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" ; "The history of Islamic Spain remains central to popular
understandings of Europe's past and present. In Kingdoms of Faith, the acclaimed historian
Brian Catlos rewrites this fascinating era from the ground up, bringing to vivid life
the violence, religious passions, and cultural and scientific achievements that characterized
Spain under Muslim rule, while at the same time offering an authoritative new interpretation
of the forces that shaped it. Catlos opens in the 7th century with the founding of
Islam, charting the bloody expansion of Muslim domains spearheaded by Muhammed's ambitious
successors. Within a hundred years, the Western thrust of the Muslim conquest had
crossed the narrow sea between North Africa and the rock of Gibraltar; the society
they established south of the Pyrenees would endure for nearly one thousand years.
Scholars and the public alike too often interpret this era in the context of the political
and religious conflicts that divide the modern Middle East. Depending on our politics,
Catlos argues, we imagine Muslim Spain either as a romantic golden age of peaceful
toleration, or as a period when the Christians of the Iberian Peninsula suffered under
merciless Muslim rulers. Avoiding both nostalgia and polemic, Catlos explores in astonishing
detail the complex relations among this hybrid society's religious communities. He
reveals, above all, that religious identity was only one factor among many that shaped
personal identity. The glories of Islamic Spain--in mathematics, theology, astronomy,
textiles and more--spread far and wide, shaping the societies of the Mediterranean
basin and helping create the foundation for European ascendance"
Sujet(s) : Musulmans -- Espagne -- Histoire
Islam -- Espagne -- Histoire
Civilisation islamique -- Espagne -- Histoire
Indice(s) Dewey :
946.02 (23e éd.) = Histoire - Espagne - 0711-1479
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9780465055876. - ISBN 0465055877. - ISBN 9780465093168 (erroné). - ISBN 0465093167
(erroné)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb45696832b
Notice n° :
FRBNF45696832
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Table des matières : Prelude: The beginning of Islam and the end of antiquity ; Part I: Conquest, 700-820
; An opening ; Trouble in paradise ; The falcon of the Quraysh ; A new emirate
; Part II: Transformation, 820-929 ; The emirate on the edge ; The invention of
al-Andalus ; Saints and sinners ; Kingdoms of faith ; Part III: Triumph, 929-1030
; A sun rising in the west ; The resplendent city ; All the Caliph's men ; "An
ornament bright" ; The general, the caliph, his wife, and her lover ; The chamberlain,
victorious ; The fall of the House of Umayya ; Part IV: Disarray, 1030-1220 ; The
remembrance of things past ; The return of the king ; A soldier of fortune in the
kingdom of philosophy ; A terrible, swift sword ; Faith and power ; An African
caliphate ; Golden ages ; Part V: Romance, 1220-1482 ; The great game ; Crescent
under cross ; The pearl in the necklace ; Prosperous by God ; Tales of the Alhambra
; Part VI: Shards, 1482-1614 ; A last sigh ; The virgin and the veil ; On the road
with Ricote ; Epilogue: Al-Andalus unmoored.