Research Catalog

Title

Blood and faith : the purging of Muslim Spain / Matthew Carr.

Author

Carr, Matthew, 1955-

Publication

New York : New Press, 2009.

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Details

Description

xiv, 350 pages; 24 cm

Summary

"In April 1609, King Philip III of Spain signed an edict denouncing the Muslim inhabitants of Spain as heretics, traitors. and apostates. Later that year, on threat of death, the entire Muslim population of Spain was given three days to leave Spanish territory." "In the brutal and traumatic exodus that followed, entire families and communities were obliged to abandon homes and villages where they had lived for generations, leaving their property in the hands of their Christian neighbors. In Aragon and Catalonia, Muslims were escorted by government commissioners who forced them to pay whenever they drank water from a river or took refuge in the shade. For five years the expulsion continued to grind on, until an estimated 300,000 Muslims had been removed from Spanish territory, nearly 5 percent of the total population. By 1614 Spain had successfully implemented what was then the largest act of ethnic cleansing in European history, and Muslim Spain had effectively ceased to exist." "Blood and Faith is journalist Matthew Carr's riveting chronicle of this virtually unknown episode, set against the vivid historical backdrop of the history of Muslim Spain. Here is 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 over-whelming odds."--BOOK JACKET.

Subjects

• Spain > History > Philip III, 1598-1621
• Spain > Church history > 17th century
• Spain > Ethnic relations > History > 17th century
• Forced migration > Spain > History > 17th century
• Muslims > Spain > History > 17th century

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Prologue: "The End of Spain's Calamities" -- Pt. 1. Conquest to Conversion -- 1. The Iberian Exception -- 2. The Victors -- 3. The Vanquished -- 4. Broken Promises: Granada 1492-1500 -- 5. Rebellion and Conversion -- 6. Faith Triumphant -- 7. The Last Redoubt: Aragon 1520-1526 -- Pt. II. One Flock, One Shepherd -- 8. A "House Full of Snakes and Scorpions" -- 9. Parallel Lives -- 10. Dangerous Times: 1556-1568 -- 11. The Granada Pragmatic -- 12. "A Dirty Little War" -- 13. Defeat and Punishment -- Pt. III. Catastrophe -- 14. The Great Fear -- 15. "The Vilest of People" -- 16. Toward Expulsion -- 17. "An Imminent Danger": 1598-1609 -- 18. The "Agreeable Holocaust" -- 19. Secrecy and Deception -- 20. A Perfect Conclusion? 1611-1614 -- 21. The Reckoning -- Epilogue: A Warning from History?

ISBN

• 9781595583611 (hardcover : alk. paper)
• 1595583610 (hardcover : alk. paper)

LCCN

• 2009008604
• 40017074048

OCLC

• ocn313078199
• 313078199
• SCSB-14089182

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries