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Author : Samuel Parsons Scott
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781350154322
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (543 download)
Download or read book History of the Moorish Empire in Europe written by Samuel Parsons Scott and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Stanley Lane-Poole
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (19 download)
Download or read book The Story of the Moors in Spain written by Stanley Lane-Poole and published by . This book was released on 1886 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Samuel Parsons Scott
Publisher : Library of Alexandria
ISBN 13 : 1465544666
Total Pages : 2589 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (655 download)
Download or read book History of the Moorish Empire in Europe (Complete) written by Samuel Parsons Scott and published by Library of Alexandria. This book was released on with total page 2589 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Few countries of the globe present to the eye of the traveller so desolate, so forbidding an aspect as that vast and arid peninsula which, embracing an area of more than a million square miles, stretches away through twenty-four degrees of latitude, from the confines of the Syrian Desert to the shores of the Indian Ocean. Its surface, while far from possessing the monotonous character with which popular fancy is accustomed to invest it, is, for the greater part of its extent, destitute of those physical advantages which tempt either the cupidity or the enterprise of man. Its coasts are low and unhealthy. Its harbors are few and unsafe. Its mineral resources are to this day unexplored and unknown. Its impenetrable deserts, guarded by a fierce and martial population, have always set at defiance the best-matured plans of invasion and conquest. In the principality of Yemen, appropriately named The Happy, the cultivation of the soil has flourished from time immemorial, but in almost every other province the returns of agricultural labor are discouraging and unremunerative. Illimitable wastes of sand, over which sweeps the deadly blast of the simoom; mountains, bald, craggy, and volcanic, whose slopes are destitute of every trace of vegetable life; plains strewn with blocks of tufa and basalt; valleys dotted here and there with stunted shrubs, or encrusted with a saline deposit similar to that upon the shores of the Dead Sea; a soil impregnated with nitre; such are, and have been from prehistoric times, the physical features of the Arabian Peninsula. No stream worthy of the name of river, dispensing wealth and fertility in its winding course to the sea, flows through this dreary and inhospitable land. Wherever a spring was found, a permanent settlement arose, and the black tents of the Bedouin gave place to huts of sun-dried bricks, while the dignity of the sheik, who now aspired to the title of prince, was satisfied with a dwelling superior to those of his subjects only in point of size. The oasis, generally suggestive of shady groves and purling streams, is often, in reality, nothing more than the dry bed of a mountain torrent, along whose borders a little withered vegetation furnishes the hardy camel with pasture, and where a scanty supply of brackish water can, by laborious digging, be obtained. Overhead glitters a sky of brass, unflecked by a single cloud, and, morning and evening, the rays of the sun, mellowed and refracted by the vapors of the earth, clothe every elevation with scarlet, azure, and violet tints which, blended in exquisite harmony, rival the splendors of the rainbow; developing, under the effects of radiation, optical illusions and charming pictures of the mirage, attributed by superstitious ignorance to the influence of enchantment. The unbroken stillness of the Desert, the wide expanse of uninhabited territory, produce a sense of mental depression, accompanied by an apprehension of danger from the convulsions of nature and the violence of man, which no experience seems able to remove; affecting even the sturdy camel-driver, familiar with these solitudes from childhood, who shudders as he urges his string of panting beasts over the drifted sand-heaps and through the mountain fastness, the reputed haunt of evil genii and the vantage ground from whence the murderous banditti oft beset the caravan. So deeply-rooted and tenacious is this feeling that the Arab regards a journey successfully performed as just cause for congratulation, and indeed not inferior to a triumph, as is indicated by his familiar proverb, “Travel is a victory.”
Author : Richard A. Fletcher
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520248403
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (484 download)
Download or read book Moorish Spain written by Richard A. Fletcher and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2006-05-05 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A good introductory picture of the Islamic presence in Spain, from the year 711 until the modern era.
Author : Florian
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (21 download)
Download or read book History of the Moors of Spain written by Florian and published by . This book was released on 1844 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: History of the Moors of Spain by Samuel Green Florian, first published in 1900, is a rare manuscript, the original residing in one of the great libraries of the world. This book is a reproduction of that original, which has been scanned and cleaned by state-of-the-art publishing tools for better readability and enhanced appreciation. Restoration Editors' mission is to bring long out of print manuscripts back to life. Some smudges, annotations or unclear text may still exist, due to permanent damage to the original work. We believe the literary significance of the text justifies offering this reproduction, allowing a new generation to appreciate it.
Author : Budgett Meakin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 628 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Moorish Empire written by Budgett Meakin and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 628 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Hugh Kennedy
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317870409
Total Pages : 325 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (178 download)
Download or read book Muslim Spain and Portugal written by Hugh Kennedy and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-06-11 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 written from Christian sources and seen in terms of the Christian Reconquest. Hugh Kennedy raises the profile of this important area, bringing the subject alive with vivid translations from Arab sources. This will be fascinating reading for historians of medieval Europe and for historians of the middle east drawing out the similarities and contrasts with other areas of the Muslim world.
Author : Stanley Lane-Poole
Publisher : Good Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (596 download)
Download or read book The Moors in Spain: History of the Conquest, 800 year Rule & The Final Fall of Granada written by Stanley Lane-Poole and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2023-11-17 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stanley Lane-Poole's 'The Moors in Spain' provides a detailed account of the history of the Moors' conquest of Spain, their 800-year rule, and the final fall of Granada. Written in a captivating and informative style, the book delves into the cultural, political, and military aspects of this significant period in Spanish history. Lane-Poole skillfully navigates through the intricate details of the Moors' influence in Spain, offering insights into their advancements in art, architecture, and science, as well as their impact on the region's socio-political landscape. The book is a valuable resource for those interested in medieval history and the interplay of cultures in the Iberian Peninsula. Stanley Lane-Poole, a renowned historian and orientalist, was well-equipped to author a comprehensive account of the Moors in Spain. With a deep understanding of Arabic and Islamic culture, Lane-Poole brings a nuanced perspective to the complex interactions between the Moors and the native Christian kingdoms in Spain. His meticulous research and academic expertise shine through in this seminal work. I highly recommend 'The Moors in Spain' to anyone seeking a scholarly and insightful exploration of the Moors' legacy in Spain. Lane-Poole's authoritative voice and thorough analysis make this book a must-read for history enthusiasts and students of cultural exchange.
Author : Elizabeth Drayson
Publisher : Profile Books
ISBN 13 : 1782832769
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (828 download)
Download or read book The Moor's Last Stand written by Elizabeth Drayson and published by Profile Books. This book was released on 2017-04-20 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1482, Abu Abdallah Muhammad XI became the twenty-third Muslim King of Granada. He would be the last. This is the first history of the ruler, known as Boabdil, whose disastrous reign and bitter defeat brought seven centuries of Moorish Spain to an end. It is an action-packed story of intrigue, treachery, cruelty, cunning, courtliness, bravery and tragedy. Basing her vivid account on original documents and sources, Elizabeth Drayson traces the origins and development of Islamic Spain. She describes the thirteenth-century founding of the Nasrid dynasty, the cultured and stable society it created, and the feuding which threatened it and had all but destroyed it by 1482, when Boabdil seized the throne. The new Sultan faced betrayals by his family, factions in the Alhambra palace, and ever more powerful onslaughts from the forces of Ferdinand and Isabella, monarchs of the newly united kingdoms of Castile and Aragon. By stratagem, diplomacy, courage and strength of will Boabdil prolonged his reign for ten years, but he never had much chance of survival. In 1492 Ferdinand and Isabella, magnificently attired in Moorish costume, entered Granada and took possession of the city. Boabdil went into exile. The Christian reconquest of Spain, that has reverberated so powerfully down the centuries, was complete.
Author : Ivan Van Sertima
Publisher : Transaction Pub
ISBN 13 : 9781560005810
Total Pages : 462 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (58 download)
Download or read book Golden Age of the Moor written by Ivan Van Sertima and published by Transaction Pub. This book was released on 1992 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work examines the debt owed by Europe to the Moors for the Renaissance and the significant role played by the African in the Muslim invasions of the Iberian peninsula. While it focuses mainly on Spain and Portugal, it also examines the races and roots of the original North African before the later ethnic mix of the blackamoors and tawny Moors in the medieval period. The study ranges from the Moor in the literature of Cervantes and Shakespeare to his profound influence upon Europe's university system and the diffusion via this system of the ancient and medieval sciences. The Moors are shown to affect not only European mathematics and map-making, agriculture and architecture, but their markets, their music and their machines. The ethnicity of the Moor is re-examined, as is his unique contribution, both as creator and conduit, to the first seminal phase of the industrial revolution.
Author : Dario Fernandez-Morera
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1684516293
Total Pages : 315 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (845 download)
Download or read book The Myth of the Andalusian Paradise written by Dario Fernandez-Morera and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2023-07-11 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A finalist for World Magazine's Book of the Year! Scholars, journalists, and even politicians uphold Muslim-ruled medieval Spain—"al-Andalus"—as a multicultural paradise, a place where Muslims, Christians, and Jews lived in harmony. There is only one problem with this widely accepted account: it is a myth. In this groundbreaking book, Northwestern University scholar Darío Fernández-Morera tells the full story of Islamic Spain. The Myth of the Andalusian Paradise shines light on hidden history by drawing on an abundance of primary sources that scholars have ignored, as well as archaeological evidence only recently unearthed. This supposed beacon of peaceful coexistence began, of course, with the Islamic Caliphate's conquest of Spain. Far from a land of religious tolerance, Islamic Spain was marked by religious and therefore cultural repression in all areas of life and the marginalization of Christians and other groups—all this in the service of social control by autocratic rulers and a class of religious authorities. The Myth of the Andalusian Paradise provides a desperately needed reassessment of medieval Spain. As professors, politicians, and pundits continue to celebrate Islamic Spain for its "multiculturalism" and "diversity," Fernández-Morera sets the historical record straight—showing that a politically useful myth is a myth nonetheless.
Author : Malyn Newitt
Publisher : Reaktion Books
ISBN 13 : 1861897014
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (618 download)
Download or read book Portugal in European and World History written by Malyn Newitt and published by Reaktion Books. This book was released on 2009-12-01 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite its modest size, Portugal has played a major part in the development of Europe and the modern world. In Portugal in European and World History Malyn Newitt offers a fresh appraisal of Portuguese history and its role in the world—from early Moorish times to the English Alliance of 1650–1900 and through the country’s liberal revolution in 1974. Newitt specifically examines episodes where Portugal was a key player or innovator in history. Chapters focus on such topics as Moorish Portugal, describing the cultural impact of contact with the Moors—one of the oldest points of contact between Western Europe and Islam; the opening up of trade with western Africa; and the explorations of Vasco de Gama and the evolution of Portugal as the first commercial empire of modern times. Newitt also examines Portugal’s role in the Counter-reformation, in Spain’s wars in Europe, and in the Anglo-Portuguese alliance. Finally, Newitt analyzes the fall of fascism and the Portuguese decolonization within the context of larger global empires and movements. This new account of a country with a rich historyshows how Portugal has moved from being the last colonial power to one of the most enthusiastic proponents of the modern European ideal.
Author : E W Bovill
Publisher : Hassell Street Press
ISBN 13 : 9781013495175
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (951 download)
Download or read book The Golden Trade of the Moors written by E W Bovill and published by Hassell Street Press. This book was released on 2021-09-09 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author : Joseph Krauskopf
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Jews and Moors in Spain written by Joseph Krauskopf and published by . This book was released on 1886 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This volume is a reprint of newspaper reports of a series of lectures delivered by the author from the pulpit of Congregation B'nai Jehudah, Kansas City, Mo., during the Fall and Winter of 1885-1886. The lectures were prepared to fulfill the requirements of popular discourses, and designed to convey information upon a highly important epoch of the world's history, that is almost neglected in English literature. The thought of publishing these lectures in book form was utterly foreign to the author throughout their preparation, until an urgent solicitation from very many persons, both Jews and Gentiles, in all parts of this country, whose interest in these lectures was aroused by their wide-spread republication by the Press, made it a duty."--Goodreads.com.
Author : Jan Read
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Pub Incorporated
ISBN 13 : 9780874716443
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (164 download)
Download or read book The Moors in Spain and Portugal written by Jan Read and published by Rowman & Littlefield Pub Incorporated. This book was released on 1975 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Rufus/O. Jimerson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781691123162
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (231 download)
Download or read book The Black Rulers, Military Leaders, Clergy, and Moors Who Saved Medieval Europe written by Rufus/O. Jimerson and published by . This book was released on 2019-09-05 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The purpose of this title is to debunk the white supremacist narrative of Europe's Middle Ages. It begins by revealing that the first Europeans were migrants from Africa in antiquity followed by soldiers recruited by the Roman Empire, Christian evangelists from both north and northeastern Africa (today's Middle East) than populated by blacks. They and their progeny were the center of European history through the Middle Ages. That progeny became Europe's nobles, royals, bourgeoisie, and leading clerics of the Catholic Church. They were known as "blue-bloods" because they were fair or very light-skinned blacks whose veins appeared to be blue as seen through the skin. They have chapters or krewes that claim to be connected to Europe's monarchial rulers. According to the Economist (2016), there are the blue-blood organizations-"krewes," in New Orleans's Mardi Gras parlance-that have been parading since the late 1800s, when the festival was introduced to the city by French Catholic settlers who were attesting to lineage to the European aristocracy that ruled through the Middle Ages. This group in both the Old and New Worlds were recognized as Moors because their ancient lineage can be traced to Mauritania, in West Africa, and Kemet along the Nile Valley in East Africa.The Moors are Black Africans. They once constituted Rome's finest soldiers, numerous emperors. Their prodigy served as renowned knights during the Middle Ages that saved Europe from pagan violence, pillage, and chaos. In addition, they and prodigy were the founders and evangelist of Christianity. As learned men, they conveyed ancient Kemet philosophy and science transcribed by Greco-Latin and Islamic scholars. That knowledge would give birth to the Renaissance and Modern Era's ingenuity and invention.Black and brown complexioned, they were leaders among Europe's nobles and bourgeoisie that arose in number after the 12th century when trade and commerce was triggered by trading settlements and routs established in the holy lands by virtue of the Crusades. Intermarriage thrived to enhance hegemony and lineage. The African lineage as displayed on the "coat of arms" depicts one or more Black Africans as father(s) or seeder(s) of the family as bestowed by kings and/or emperors. The idolized images of Virgin Mary and Jesus the Savior of Our Souls and God in human form were depicted as black. Statutes to blacks who fought for Christianity are found throughout Europe and Russia.Black Africans had god-like status until their capture and enslavement in the continent beginning in the 16th and 17th centuries to extract agricultural and mining wealth from the New World. This book shatters the "white supremacist paradigm" accorded to the Middle Ages as a triumph of white chivalry in a quest to save Eurocentric Christianity, civilization, and white womanhood from all these Islamic, swarthy, savage, Othello-like, infidels standing in the way of human progress. Mainstream history was rewritten to falsely proclaim that blacks had no meaningful presence in human history prior to their enslavement and conversion to humble Christian servants. To ensure this myth is believed, the black and brown portraits and sculptures of the ruling class had to be either whitened or remodeled to appear idealistically Caucasian or Nordic. The book unravels the mainstream narrative from the so-called white Roman occupation to the Renaissance. It looks at key figures, knightly order, royals and emperors that were either black, brown, or blue blood prodigies who fought off intruders from Asia, particularly from Central Russia, Turkey's Ottoman Empire, and Islamic Africa. The case and evidence that they served as saviors of Europe's civilization and human progress that would be free to pursue a rebirth and reconnection to Africa's philosophy and science from its ancient past.
Author : Diana Darke
Publisher : Hurst & Company
ISBN 13 : 1787383059
Total Pages : 484 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (873 download)
Download or read book Stealing from the Saracens written by Diana Darke and published by Hurst & Company. This book was released on 2020 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Europeans are in denial. Against a backdrop of Islamophobia, they are increasingly distancing themselves from their cultural debt to the Muslim world. But while the legacy of Islam and the Middle East is in danger of being airbrushed out of Western history, its traces can still be detected in some of Europe's most recognisable monuments, from Notre-Dame to St Paul's Cathedral. In this comprehensively illustrated book, Diana Darke sets out to redress the balance, revealing the Arab and Islamic roots of Europe's architectural heritage. She tracks the transmission of key innovations from the great capitals of Islam's early empires, Damascus and Baghdad, via Muslim Spain and Sicily into Europe. Medieval crusaders, pilgrims and merchants from Europe later encountered Arab Muslim culture in journeys to the Holy Land. In more recent centuries, that same route through modern-day Turkey connected Ottoman culture with the West, leading Sir Christopher Wren himself to believe that Gothic architecture should more rightly be called 'the Saracen style', because of its Islamic origins. Recovering this overlooked story within the West's long history of borrowing from the Islamic world, Darke sheds new light on Europe's buildings and offers rich insights into the possibilities of cultural exchange.
