Blood and Faith
The New Press(September 2009)
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In 1609, King Philip the Third signed an edict denouncing the Muslim inhabitants of Spain as heretics, traitors and apostates and ordering their expulsion from Spanish territory. By 1614 an estimated 300,000 Muslims had been expelled from Spanish territory, a process the Catholic Church in Spain called “el agradable holocausto” – “an agreeable holocaust”. So came to an end over 800 years of Muslim culture and history in Spain.
In BLOOD AND FAITH, a cultural history of the purging of Muslim Spain from 1492 to 1614, Matthew Carr not only tells the compelling, tragic history of the expulsion of the Muslims from Spain, but also examines the similarities and differences between those events in sixteenth century Spain and the current fractious relationship between Islam and Europe.
'In 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 Europe's first multicultural nation. Matthew Carr's fine book offers a grim lesson about religious and racial repression for our contemporary age of contested faiths.' -- David Levering Lewis, Professor of History at NYU and author of GOD'S CRUCIBLE: ISLAM AND THE MAKING OF EUROPE, 570-1215
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