ISBN10: 0520084969, ISBN13: 9780520084964, [publisher: Univ of California Press] Softcover In the year 711, a small Berber army under Arab leadership crossed the Straits of Gibraltar from Morocco and, in the following year, defeated the army of Spain, slaying its king. Within a matter of a few years only, the whole of the Iberian peninsula was theirs and the course of Western civilization was transformed. For nearly a thousand years, the Islamic presence they planted in Spain survived - at times flourishing, at others dwindling into warring, fratricidal fiefdoms. But the culture and science they brought with them - including long-buried knowledge from Greece, forgotten in Europe's Dark Ages - was to have an even more enduring impact. Now, in a book as gracefully written as it is compellingly narrated, Richard Fletcher reveals that culture in all its fascinating disparity, telling as much about the differing waves of Islamic conquest and immigration (and, thereby, about a thousand years of Islamic history in North Africa and the Middle East) as about the culture and history of Spain itself. In the tradition of Steven Runciman's elegant histories of the Crusades and John Julius Norwich's engrossing accounts of Venice and Byzantium, Richard Fletcher's Moorish Spain entertains even as it enlightens. It is history at its best: wonderful storytelling by a true and recognized scholar writing with wit and style. Due to age and/or environmental ...

University of California Press, Date: 1993. Paperback. Good. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed. 1993. University of California Press ISBN 0520084969 9780520084964 [US]

University of California Press, Date: 1993. Paperback. Good. Former library book; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed. 1993. University of California Press ISBN 0520084969 9780520084964 [US]

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University of California Press, Date: 1993-12-29. Paperback. Good. 1993. University of California Press ISBN 0520084969 9780520084964 [US]

Edges and corners sl shelf worn. Minor spots on page edges. Starting in 711AD with the crossing of the Straits of Gibraltar by a small Berber army and covering 1000 years of influence this introductory text manages to explain a complex topic in a comprehensive way. Date: 1993. University Of California Press ISBN 0520084969 9780520084964 [US]

Understanding 1,000 years of Islams influence over Science and Culture and how it formed what would be Medieval Spain. Date: 1993. University Of California Press ISBN 0520084969 9780520084964 [US]

Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, Date: 1993. xiv, 189 pages, illustrations, maps; 23 cm. Near fine. Tight, clean copy. Age toning. First paperback edition. A history of nine centuries of Islamic rule in Spain, beginning in the year 711. CONTENTS: 1. Romance and reality; 2. The secret of the tower; 3. The curve of conversion; 4. The caliphate of Cordoba; 5. The party kings; 6. The Moroccan fundamentalists; 7. Convivencia; 8. Nasrid Granada; 9. An august pomegranate. . Paperback. Very Good. 8vo. 1993. University of California Press ISBN 0520084969 9780520084964 [US]

University of California Press (Date: 1993). Paperback. xiv + 189 pp. Illustrations; Maps; Index. New, never used. Ships immediately. 1993. University of California Press ISBN 0520084969 9780520084964 [US]

University of California Press, Date: 1993-12-29. Paperback. Very Good. Prompt shipment, with tracking. we ship in CLEAN SECURE NEW boxes minor creasing else very good clean copy 1993. University of California Press ISBN 0520084969 9780520084964 [US]