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. Size: 8vo. Seller Inventory # 124426

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Title: Moorish Spain

Publisher: University of California Press, Berkeley, CA

Publication Date: 1993

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good

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Beginning in the year 711 and continuing for nearly a thousand years, the Islamic presence survived in Spain, at times flourishing, and at other times dwindling into warring fiefdoms. But the culture and science thereby brought to Spain, including long-buried knowledge from Greece, largely forgotten during Europe's Dark Ages, was to have an enduring impact on the country as it emerged into the modern era. In this gracefully written history, Richard Fletcher reveals the Moorish culture in all its fascinating disparity and gives us history at its best: here is vivid storytelling by a renowned scholar.

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Richard Fletcher was Professor of History at the University of York. He was the author of The Barbarian Conversion: From Paganism to Christianity (California, 1999)

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