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A vanished world : medieval Spain's golden age of enlightenment / Chris Lowney.

by Lowney, Chris.

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New York : Free Press, c2005.

Toleration -- Spain -- History.

Muslims -- Spain -- History.

Christians -- Spain -- History.

Jews -- Spain -- History.

Religions -- Relations.

Spain -- Civilization -- 711-1516.

Spain -- Ethnic relations.

Spain -- Religion.

Spain -- Biography.

0743243595 (alk. paper) :

320 p. : ill., map ; 24 cm.

Spain before Islam -- The Moors conquer Spain : "our God and your God is one" -- Santiago discovered in the field of stars -- Martyr-activists : determined to die in a city "piled full of riches" -- The Pope who learned math from Muslim Spain -- Europe's busiest highway -- A Jewish general in a Muslim kingdom : "I am the David of my age" -- The frontier : jihad, Crusades, cowboys, and sheep -- Charlemagne : "God, how wearisome my life is" -- El Cid : "born in a fortunate house" -- The second Moses and medieval medicine -- Rethinking religion : "to long with an exceeding longing" -- A Muslim commentator enlightens Christendom : "you who have eyes to see, reflect!" -- Sufism : "my heart has become capable of every form" -- The Kabbalah : "an instrument for peace in the world" -- Fernando III : "who broke and destroyed all his enemies" -- A common life shared among three faiths : "damnable mixing" -- Alfonso the learned king -- The end of Spanish Judaism : "the razor that rips the membrane of my aching heart" -- Columbus, a new world, and the end of history : "a deed forbidden by every faith."

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