A Vanished World: Muslims, Christians, and Jews in Medieval SpainOxford University Press, 2006 - 320 oldal In a world torn by religious antagonism, lessons can be learned from medieval Spanish villages where Muslims, Christians, and Jews rubbed shoulders on a daily basis--sharing irrigation canals, bathhouses, municipal ovens, and marketplaces. Medieval Spaniards introduced Europeans to paper manufacture, Hindu-Arabic numerals, philosophical classics, algebra, citrus fruits, cotton, and new medical techniques. Her mystics penned classics of Kabbalah and Sufism. More astonishing than Spain's wide-ranging accomplishments, however, was the simple fact that until the destruction of the last Muslim Kingdom by King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella in 1492, Spain's Muslims, Christians, and Jews often managed to bestow tolerance and freedom of worship on the minorities in their midst. A Vanished World chronicles this panoramic sweep of human history and achievement, encompassing both the agony of Jihad, Crusades, and Inquisition, and the glory of a multi-religious, multi-cultural civilization that forever changed the West. Lowney shows how these three controversial religious groups once lived and worked together in Spain, creating commerce, culture, art, and architecture. He reveals how these three faith groups eventually veered into a thicket of resentment and violence, and shows how our current policies and approaches might lead us down the same path. Rising above politics, propaganda, and name-calling, A Vanished World provides a hopeful meditation on how relations among these three faith groups have gone wrong and some ideas on how to make their interactions right. |
Tartalomjegyzék
PREFACE | 1 |
INTRODUCTION | 5 |
1 Spain Before Islam | 15 |
Our God and Your God Is One | 29 |
3 Santiago Discovered in the Field of Stars | 43 |
Determined to Die in a City Piled Full of Riches | 55 |
5 The Pope Who Learned Math from Muslim Spain | 71 |
6 Europes Busiest Highway | 79 |
My Heart Has Become Capable of Every Form | 177 |
An Instrument for Peace in the World | 183 |
Who Broke and Destroyed All His Enemies | 191 |
Damnable Mixing | 199 |
18 Alfonso the Learned King | 209 |
The Razor That Rips the Membrane of My Aching Heart | 227 |
A Deed Forbidden by Every Faith | 247 |
EPILOGUE | 263 |
I Am the David of My Age | 93 |
Jihad Crusades Cowboys and Sheep | 103 |
God How Wearisome My Life Is | 119 |
Born in a Fortunate Hour | 129 |
11 The Second Moses and Medieval Medicine | 143 |
To Long with an Exceeding Longing | 157 |
You Who Have Eyes to See Reflect | 165 |
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