About The Book

What took place in the Iberian peninsula between 711 and 1609 is fascinating. It witnessed great illumination and tremendous darkness. It was characterised by immense wisdom and profound ignorance. One of the meanings of ‘Andalus’ in Arabic is ‘to become so smooth and shiny with age that it slips through your fingers’ – and this is the story of what has happened there, not once, but many times.

The Presence of Islam in Andalus explores the history, not only of that extraordinary period but also of how the teachings of Christianity developed in Europe. It is only within this context that the reader can fully understand how it was that the inhabitants of the Iberian peninsula embraced Islam so readily and rapidly in the eighth century CE – and how it was that the Jews and the Muslims of Spain and Portugal in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries CE were either exterminated by the Spanish Inquisition or forced to flee for their lives.

Contents

Andalus Before Islam
The Nazarenes and The Christians
The Donatists and Arians
The Visigoths
The Vandals
The Ostrogoths
The Goths in The Iberian Peninsula
The Jews in Iberian Peninsula
The Early Paulicians
The Later Paulicians
The End of The Paulicians
The Muslims in Andalus
The Murabitun in Andalus
The Muwahhidun in Andalus
The Mudajares of Northen Spain
The End of The Jews in Spain
The Muslims of Southern Andalus
The End of The Mudejares
The Moriscos of The Northen Spain
The Moriscos of The Southern Spain
The Last of The Moriscos in Spain
The End of The Moriscos in Spain
The End of The Christian Unitarians and Protestants in Spain
Spain Without Islam

About The Authors

Ahmad Thomson

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