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Christians and Jews in the Ottoman Arab world : the roots of sectarianism by Bruce Alan MastersPublication Date: 2001-08-06
Masters explores the history of Christians and Jews in the Ottoman empire and how their identities as non-Muslims evolved over 400. In the 16th century, social community was circumscribed by religious identity and non-Muslims lived within the hierarchy established by Muslim law. In the 19th century, however, in response to Western influences, a radical change took place. Conflict erupted between Muslims and Christians in different parts of the empire in a challenge to that hierarchy. This marked the beginning of the tensions which have inspired the nationalist and religious rhetoric throughout the twentieth century.
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The eve of Spain : myths of origins in the history of Christian, Muslim, and Jewish conflict by Patricia E. GrievePublication Date: 2009-03-19
The Eve of Spain demonstrates how the telling and retelling of one of Spain's founding myths played a central role in the formation of that country's national identity. King Roderigo, the last Visigoth king of Spain, rapes (or possibly seduces) La Cava, the daughter of his friend and counselor, Count Julian. In revenge, the count travels to North Africa and conspires with its Berber rulers to send an invading army into Spain. So begins the Muslim conquest and the end of Visigothic rule. A few years later, in Northern Spain, Pelayo initiates a Christian resistance and starts a new line of kings to which the present-day Spanish monarchy traces its roots.
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Islam, Christianity, and the West : a troubled history by Rollin Armour (Editor)Publication Date: 2002-03-01
Beginning with Muhammad and his historical and cultural context, this book recounts the tale of the thirteen-century-long encounter of Western and Islamic civilizations. Armour uses the best of contemporary research to show how events such as the Crusades and the Reconquista of Spain have indelibly shaped the mindset of the West toward Islam and vice versa. He reveals how the modern Western political and economic system has been perceived by the Islamic world as a Godless secular assault on all that is holy. He ends with the Arab-Israeli conflict and the events of 11 September 2001.
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Saracens: Islam in the medieval European imagination by John V. TolanPublication Date: 2002-05-01
In the first century of Islam, most of the former Christian Roman Empire, from Syria to Spain, was brought under Muslim control in a conquest of unprecedented proportions. Some converted. Others took up arms. Still others, the subjects of John Tolan's study of anti-Muslim polemics in medieval Europe, undertook to attack Islam and its most vivid avatar, the saracen, with words. In an effort to make sense of God's apparent abandonment of Christendom in favor of a dynamic and expanding Muslim civilization, European writers distorted the teachings of Islam and caricatured its believers in a variety of ways.
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