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  • Crucible of Light

    Islam and the Forging of European Civilization

    The epic history of Europe’s rich Islamic heritage, exploring the endless complexities of this centuries-long relationship.Few readers are aware how much Europe owes to its Islamic heritage; this book aims to restore the central place of Muslim culture in the continent’s history, while exploring the endless complexities that this vexed relationship creates. At a time when Islam is so narrowly ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

  • Lost Paradise

    The Story of Granada

    The essential history of an iconic European city, by Cambridge academic Elizabeth Drayson.'An admirable achievement... [Drayson has] expertise as a scholar and command as a storyteller' BBC History Magazine'A glittering homage to one of the world's most beautiful and storied cities' Dan Jones'Beauty built on blood and brutality... A fascinating new tome' Daily MailFrom the early Middle Ages ... ... Read more

    $16.39 USD

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    Crucible of Light

    Islam and the Forging of European Civilization

    Narrated by Daphne Alexander ...

    Unabridged

    21 hours 29 min

    Few readers are aware how much Europe owes to its Islamic heritage; this book aims to restore the central place of Muslim culture in the continent's history, while exploring the endless complexities that this vexed relationship creates. At a time when Islam is so narrowly identified with terrorism and migration in Europe, Crucible of Light is a necessary corrective.The contested but fruitful ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

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    How Muslims, Jews, and Christians Created a Culture of Tolerance in Medieval Spain

    A brilliant and fascinating portrait of medieval Spain explores the golden age when Muslims, Jews, and Christians lived together in an atmosphere of tolerance.This enthralling history, widely hailed as a revelation of a "lost" golden age, brings to vivid life the rich and thriving culture of medieval Spain, where for more than seven centuries Muslims, Jews, and Christians lived together in an ... Read more

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  • Kingdoms of Faith

    A New History of Islamic Spain

    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 seventeenthIn 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 ... Read more

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  • Iberia

    Spain is an immemorial land like no other, one that James A. Michener, the Pulitzer Prize–winning author and celebrated citizen of the world, came to love as his own. Iberia is Michener’s enduring nonfiction tribute to his cherished second home. In the fresh and vivid prose that is his trademark, he not only reveals the celebrated history of bullfighters and warrior kings, painters and processions ... Read more

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  • Ghosts of Spain: Travels Through a Country's Hidden Past

    Travels Through a Country's Hidden Past

    The Spanish are reputed to be amongst Europe's most voluble people. So why have they kept silent about the terrors of the Spanish Civil War and the rule of dictator Generalísimo Francisco Franco? The appearance - sixty years after that war ended - of mass graves containing victims of Franco's death squads has finally broken what Spaniards call "the pact of forgetting". At this charged moment, ... Read more

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  • The Tragedy of the Templars

    The Rise and Fall of the Crusader States

    by Michael Haag ...
    The acclaimed medieval historian chronicles the rise of Templar powers in the Levant—and the saga of their destruction.Founded on Christmas Day 1119 in Jerusalem, the Knights Templar was a religious order dedicated to defending the Holy Land and its Christian pilgrims in the decades after the First Crusade. Legendary for their bravery and dedication, the Templars became one of the wealthiest and ... Read more

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  • Camino de Santiago - Practical Preparation and Background

    by Gerald Kelly ...
    Updated edition published January 2020This is a book for everybody who wants to walk the Camino but doesn't know where to start!It covers everything you need to know to get you and your equipment ready for this big adventure.It gives you the detail and background information you need to make the important decisions about where to walk, when to walk and what to bring.The following topics are ... Read more

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  • Muslim Spain and Portugal

    A Political History of al-Andalus

    by Hugh Kennedy ...
    This is the first study in English of the political history of Muslim Spain and Portugal, based on Arab sources. It provides comprehensive coverage of events across the whole of the region from 711 to the fall of Granada in 1492. Up till now the history of this region has been badly neglected in comparison with studies of other states in medieval Europe. When considered at all, it has been largely ... Read more

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  • Isabella

    The Warrior Queen

    An engrossing and revolutionary biography of Isabella of Castile, the controversial Queen of Spain who sponsored Christopher Columbus's journey to the New World, established the Spanish Inquisition, and became one of the most influential female rulers in historyBorn at a time when Christianity was dying out and the Ottoman Empire was aggressively expanding, Isabella was inspired in her youth by ... Read more

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  • Walking the Camino

    a modern pilgrimage to Santiago

    by Tony Kevin ...
    In May 2006, armed only with a small rucksack and a staff, Tony Kevin, an overweight, sedentary, 63-year-old former diplomat, set off on an eight-week trek across Spain. But this was not just a very long walk — it was a pilgrimage.From Granada, in the southeast, to Santiago de Compostela, in the far northwest, Tony followed the Via Mozarabe and the Via de la Plata, two of the many pilgrim trails ... Read more

    $28.69 USD