Muslims in Spain, 1500 to 1614
Editorial THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO PRESS
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- Editorial THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO PRESS
- ISBN13 9780226319636
- ISBN10 0226319636
- Tipus Llibre
Muslims in Spain, 1500 to 1614
Editorial THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO PRESS
Espanya peninsular
Detalls del llibre
Picking up at the end of his earlier classic study, Islamic Spain, 1250 to 1500 - which described the courageous efforts of the followers of Islam to preserve their secular, as well as sacred, culture in late medieval Spain - L. P. Harvey chronicles here the struggles of the Moriscos. These unwilling converts to Christianity lived clandestinely in the sixteenth century as Muslims, communicating in aljamiado - Spanish written in Arabic characters, more broadly, Muslims in Spain, 1500 to 1614 tells the story of an early modern nation struggling to deal with a determined faction of non-Christians at a time when the forces of the Counter-Reformation - themselves threatened by Ottoman political and military expansion - were endeavoring to impose absolute religious uniformity.