Crucible of Light : Islam and the Forging of European Civilization

Elizabeth Drayson

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Lingua: inglese

Editore: Pegasus Books Dez 2025, 2025

9798897100019

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Neuware - The epic history of Europe’s rich Islamic heritage, exploring the endless complexities of this centuries-long relationship.Few readers are aware how much Europe owes to its Islamic heritage; this book aims to restore the central place of Muslim culture in the continent’s history, while exploring the endless complexities that this vexed relationship creates. At a time when Islam is so narrowly identified with terrorism and migration in Europe, Crucible of Light is a welcome and necessary corrective. The contested but fruitful relationship between Islam and Europe begins in 711AD with the Moorish invasion of Spain and continues to the present. Crucible of Light tells the story of the conquest and reconquest of Spain over an epic 800 year period; the meteoric rise of Arabo-Norman Sicily; the Ottoman renaissance of the sixteenth to eighteenth centuries; and the ebb and flow of Balkan history and the fate of contested islands like Cyprus and Malta, with their very different outcomes. This scale of history can only be done by focusing on individual stories and key places and, above all, by tracking themes. Winding through this story are, of course, epic battles and sieges, with Jihad and Crusade mirroring each other; but also periods of extraordinary collaboration and sharing: Europe owing its initial rediscovery of classical learning and science via the vast libraries in Spain, scoured for enlightenment by Muslim, Jewish and Christian scholars alike. Moorish architecture and gardens and geometric design, not to mention the life of the harem, eventually feed into the insatiable appetite for Orientalism in the nineteenth century, which itself was the sequel to an earlier obsession for oriental goods in the sixteenth and seventeenth century courts. In between there are patterns of hidden faiths and swapped identities as people or buildings adapt or change sides. The Hagia Sophia in Istanbul at one end of the Mediterranean and the Great Mosque in Cordoba, with its huge cathedral dropped into the middle of it, bookend the kinds of religious inversions we find in this epic story. Travel and exchange of people, ideas, and merchandise are an undercurrent throughout, (arriving inevitably in Venice in its golden age), cutting across opposite tides of rivalry, intolerance, and military confrontation.…

Codice articolo 9798897100019

Titolo
Crucible of Light : Islam and the Forging of European Civilization
Autore
Elizabeth Drayson
Editore
Pegasus Books Dez 2025
Anno di pubblicazione
2025
Condizione
Neu
Rilegatura
Buch
Lingua
inglese
ISBN 13
9798897100019
Peso dell'articolo
776 grammi
Dimensioni
233x161x42 mm

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