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“eric calderwood”

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  • On Earth or in Poems

    The Many Lives of al-Andalus

    by Eric Calderwood ...
    Finalist, Sheikh Zayed Book Award“With extraordinary linguistic range, Calderwood brings us the voices of Arabs and Muslims who have turned to the distant past of Spain to imagine their future.”—Hussein Fancy, Yale UniversityHow the memory of Muslim Iberia shapes art and politics from New York and Cordoba to Cairo and the West Bank.During the Middle Ages, the Iberian Peninsula was home not to ... Read more

    $36.89 USD

  • Colonial al-Andalus

    Spain and the Making of Modern Moroccan Culture

    by Eric Calderwood ...
    Through state-backed Catholicism, monolingualism, militarism, and dictatorship, Spain’s fascists earned their reputation for intolerance. It may therefore come as a surprise that 80,000 Moroccans fought at General Franco’s side in the 1930s. What brought these strange bedfellows together, Eric Calderwood argues, was a highly effective propaganda weapon: the legacy of medieval Muslim Iberia, known ... Read more

    $40.99 USD

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    The Urban Impact of Religion, State and Society

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  • Can Non-Europeans Think?

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  • The Ibn Khaldun Handbook - Everything You Need To Know About Ibn Khaldun

    by Scarlett Clark ...
    This book is your ultimate Ibn Khaldun resource. Here you will find the most up-to-date information, facts, quotes and much more.In easy to read chapters, with extensive references and links to get you to know all there is to know about Ibn Khaldun's whole picture right away. Get countless Ibn Khaldun facts right at your fingertips with this essential resource.The Ibn Khaldun Handbook is the ... Read more

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  • Defining Boundaries in al-Andalus

    Muslims, Christians, and Jews in Islamic Iberia

    by Janina M. Safran ...
    Al-Andalus, the Arabic name for the medieval Islamic state in Iberia, endured for over 750 years following the Arab and Berber conquest of Hispania in 711. While the popular perception of al-Andalus is that of a land of religious tolerance and cultural cooperation, the fact is that we know relatively little about how Muslims governed Christians and Jews in al-Andalus and about social relations ... Read more

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  • The Orange Trees of Marrakesh

    Ibn Khaldun and the Science of Man

    by Stephen Frederic Dale ...
    An examination of Khaldun's Islamic history of the premodern world, its philosophical underpinnings, and the author himself.In his masterwork Muqaddimah, the Arab Muslim Ibn Khaldun (1332–1406), a Tunisian descendant of Andalusian scholars and officials in Seville, developed a method of evaluating historical evidence that allowed him to identify the underlying causes of events. His methodology was ... Read more

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  • Al-Qaeda's Revenge

    The 2004 Madrid Train Bombings

    by Fernando Reinares ...
    Series series Woodrow Wilson Center Series
    In Al-Qaeda's Revenge: The 2004 Madrid Train Bombings, Fernando Reinares tells the story of "3/11" - the March 11, 2004, bombings of commuter trains in Madrid, which killed 192 people and injured more than 1,800. He examines the development of an al-Qaeda conspiracy in Spain from the 1990s through the formation of the 3/11 bombing network beginning in March 2002, and discusses the preparations for ... Read more

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  • The Musical Heritage of Al-Andalus

    by Dwight Reynolds ...
    The Musical Heritage of Al-Andalus is a critical account of the history of Andalusian music in Iberia from the Islamic conquest of 711 to the final expulsion of the Moriscos (Spanish Muslims converted to Christianity) in the early 17th century. This volume presents the documentation that has come down to us, accompanied by critical and detailed analyses of the sources written in Arabic, Old ... Read more

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  • Sayyids and Sharifs in Muslim Societies

    The Living Links to the Prophet

    Edited by Kazuo Morimoto ...
    Series series New Horizons in Islamic Studies
    The global Muslim population includes a large number of lineal descendants and relatives of the Prophet Muhammad. These kinsfolk, most often known as "sayyid" or "sharif," form a distinct social category in many Muslim societies, and their status can afford them special treatment in legal matters and in the political sphere.This book brings together an international group of renowned scholars to ... Read more

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    The First Cordoban Caliph

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    Series series Makers of the Muslim World
    Abd al-Rahman III (891 - 961) was the greatest of the Umayyad rulers of Spain and the first to take the title of Caliph. During his reign, Islamic Spain became wealthy and prosperous. He founded the great Caliphate of Madinat al-Zahra at Cordova and did much in his lifetime to pacify his realm and stabilise the borders with Christian Spain. He died at the apex of his power on Oct. 15, 961. ... Read more

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  • The Routledge Handbook of Muslim Iberia

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    This handbook offers an overview of the main issues regarding the political, economic, social, religious, intellectual and artistic history of the Iberian Peninsula during the period of Muslim rule (eighth–fifteenth centuries). A comprehensive list of primary and secondary sources attests the vitality of the academic study of al-Andalus (= Muslim Iberia) and its place in present-day discussions ... Read more

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