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File Size: 34746 KB
Print Length: 474 pages
Page Numbers Source ISBN: 0465055877
Publisher: Basic Books; 1 edition (May 1, 2018)
Publication Date: May 1, 2018
Language: English
ASIN: B075CT3RHL
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This book tells the story of Al-Andalus from the first penetration of Muslims in the 8th century til the final exile roughly 800 years later. In recent years, for modern reasons, Al-Andalus has been held up as a society of great religious tolerance that led to a great cultural flowering which was squelched when monomaniacal Christian kings re-conquered the Iberian peninsula and set everything back to the dark ages. I always felt this view was a little too rose-colored. This book comes from the same perspective and, in a neutral manner, looks at the whole picture, which is one of constant raiding and skirmishing and divisions and alliances within and between communities and cultures and sects. There was a great deal of realpolitik involved in the attitude of the leaders of one society toward others within it and without. Religiosity was often set aside, but not always. There was cruelty on both sides and magnanimity on both sides. Trust was provisional and short-lived everywhere. Equality was in short supply, especially as compared to slavery which was as endemic and vital to the economy of al-Andalus as the antebellum south of the United States.The history is told in a straightforward chronological fashion. The emphasis is on the geopolitical, i.e., who was in charge of what territory at any given time, and how the boundaries changed as time went on, which was, of course, through military conflict, conquest and defeat. As it is the story of Al-Andalus, it is mainly told from the perspective of the Muslim rulers, with the Christians very much in the background until the 15th century.My only negative response to the book is that it is a bit tedious to read. In its 400+ pages, there must be over 100 battles and over 200 rulers or pretenders. Every geopolitical development gets a couple of pages and then we move on to the next. It's a little repetitious, although I don't know how to tell it any other way in that amount of pages. If you've read any of John Julius Norwich's histories, say of Venice or Sicily, this is similar but a little drier. It's very non-academic and devoid of footnotes and endnotes, fbow. Also, for this Western reader, the author's fidelity to Arabic naming was a further obstacle, if you like to read fast, as I do; the Arabic rulers' names have a lot of similarity and I often had to slow down to be sure which of them the author was referring to at a given moment.
Not bad; scholarly + well written. But the author does not give proper sources for his information. For example, page 278 mentions that, the Jewish thinker Maimonides had feigned conversion to Islam, to emigrate to Fez. Where is Professor Catlos's source? I asked my Rabbi, an expert in Jewish history, a Rosh Kollel in a prestigious yeshiva, author of innumerable books, if that's true. The answer was, paraphrasing: 'It could be, but he never heard that'. Enjoyed reading this though, and was able to improve my vocabulary. Looked up the words animism, chancery, minaret, palatine, liminal, palanquin and dromedary.
I knew little about the Islamic period of Iberian history, and was much interested in learning what life was life. This book addressed my curiosity but spent much more time reviewing all the struggles for power, inter-tribal conflicts. Great to learn about the alliances between Christian and Muslim kingdoms, the accomplishments in economic development achieved during this era and the modernizing influence of Spain (Córdoba, in particular) that helped bring the rest of the Western World out of the "Dark Ages." Although Portugal is largely overlooked, it is a worthwhile read for anyone interested in Spanish history.
Great history of early medieval Spain and the complex interrelationship between Muslims and Christians. What I also found fascinating was the military career of El Cid.
Considering how for literally hundreds of years Spain was a changing patchwork kingdoms and shifting alliances, It would be quite the understatement to say that the history of Muslim Spain and the Reconquista is not easy to get a handle on. This is why I personally found Catlos to be such an absolute delight of a read. While his Middle Ages-spanning work reveals a time and land that is undeniably and fascinatingly complicated above all else, he does so in a clear narrative that makes this formative period on the Iberian Pensinsula easily accessible for anyone who wants to know more.
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