Blood and Faith: The Purging of Muslim Spain, 1492-1614 by Matt Carr (English) P

Description: Blood and Faith by Matt Carr A riveting and richly detailed chronicle of what was, by 1614, the largest act of ethnic cleansing in European history. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description In 1609, the entire Muslim population of Spain was given three days to leave Spanish territory or else be killed. In a brutal and traumatic exodus, entire families were forced to abandon the homes and villages where they had lived for generations. In just five years, Muslim Spain had effectively ceased to exist: an estimated 300,000 Muslims had been removed from Spanish territory making it what was then the largest act of ethnic cleansing in European history.Blood and Faith is a riveting chronicle of this virtually unknown episode, set against the vivid historical backdrop of Muslim Spain. It offers a remarkable window onto a little-known period in modern Europe-a rich and complex tale of competing faiths and beliefs, of cultural oppression and resistance against overwhelming odds. Author Biography Matthew Carr is a writer, broadcaster, and journalist whose work has appeared in The Observer, The Guardian, The New Statesman and on BBC Radio. In 1990 he wrote a memoir about his relationship with his father, My Fathers House, which was published by Hamish Hamilton to excellent reviews, and he is also the author of Fortress Europe: Inside the War Against Immigration and The Infernal Machine: A History of Terrorism. He lives in Derbyshire. Review Well-balanced and comprehensive … "Blood and Faith" is a splendid work of synthesis. … it is impossible to read this book without sensing its resonance in our own time. * The New York Times *Who remembers the last survivors of Muslim Spain, whom Spaniards contemptuously called Moriscos ("little Moors")? Impressive research on them has appeared in the last 30 years, yet until now, none of it has escaped beyond the walls of the academic ghetto. Matthew Carrs well-balanced and comprehensive book brings the story of their tragic fate to a wider public... Splendid. * New York Times Book Review *Matthew Carr[s] magnificent "Blood and Faith" charts the tragic end of the moriscos, … "a monumental historical crime" from which he seeks lessons for today. -- The GuardianEloquently written and carefully researched, "Blood and Faith" is an important new study that synthesises much important scholarship on the moriscos, until now inaccessible to an English readership, and makes us aware of historical precedents to current ideological and cultural conflicts. * European History Quarterly *Balanced and thoroughly researched history. * Literary Review *Matthew Carrs well-researched account ... is carefully written and thoroughly documented. ... This is a reliable, if often harrowing, account of a sad episode in Spanish and European history, which deserves to be better known. -- History TodayCarr navigates issues of assimilation and integration rather elegantly, and arrives at carefully considered conclusions with his deft analysis of the events that led to the expulsion and its aftermath. Indeed, Carr has written a valuable cautionary tale for the public on the pathways that crystallise imaginary evils. -- LSE Review of BooksAn estimated 350,000 Muslims were forced to abandon their homes; many died on the journey to the ships that would take them to North Africa, and many others were terrorized, raped, robbed and killed by forces that were supposed to protect them. Carr deftly narrates the complex events leading up to this little-known but horrific episode as a warning against religious intolerance and xenophobia. * Publishers Weekly *[A] sweeping panorama of a critical historical period . . . Carrs account is a powerful warning of the perils of intolerance of difference and of policies of forced conversion and assimilation.A fascinating account of perhaps the first major episode of European ethnic cleansing and, just as importantly, the story of the beginning of the conviction that "blood" matters more than belief; a conviction that led, in the end, to modern racism. In an age when so many people, on both "sides", believe we face an historic confrontation between Christendom and Islam, it is essential to place the relations between these two global Abrahamic religions in a wider historical framework. This book does that eloquently and judiciously. -- Professor Kwame Anthony AppiahIn this first comprehensive appreciation in many decades of the Muslim expulsion from Spain, "Blood and Faith" meticulously recaptures the fateful self-mutilation of a society that might have become Europes first multicultural nation and offers a grim lesson about religious and racial repression in our contemporary age of contested faiths. -- Professor David Levering Lewis, author of Gods Crucible: Islam and the Making of Europe, 570-1215 Review Quote Well-balanced and comprehensive ... Blood and Faith is a splendid work of synthesis. ... it is impossible to read this book without sensing its resonance in our own time. Details ISBN1849048010 Pages 440 Publisher C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd Year 2017 ISBN-10 1849048010 ISBN-13 9781849048019 Format Paperback Media Book Imprint C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd Subtitle The Purging of Muslim Spain, 1492-1614 Place of Publication London Country of Publication United Kingdom DEWEY 946.04 Publication Date 2017-02-02 Short Title Blood and Faith Language English UK Release Date 2017-02-02 NZ Release Date 2017-02-02 Author Matt Carr Audience General AU Release Date 2017-02-01 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:136087077;

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