The Moor's Last Stand - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Moor's Last Stand write by Elizabeth Drayson. This book was released on 2017-04-20. The Moor's Last Stand available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In 1482, Abu Abdallah Muhammad XI became the twenty-third Muslim King of Granada. He would be the last. This is the first history of the ruler, known as Boabdil, whose disastrous reign and bitter defeat brought seven centuries of Moorish Spain to an end. It is an action-packed story of intrigue, treachery, cruelty, cunning, courtliness, bravery and tragedy. Basing her vivid account on original documents and sources, Elizabeth Drayson traces the origins and development of Islamic Spain. She describes the thirteenth-century founding of the Nasrid dynasty, the cultured and stable society it created, and the feuding which threatened it and had all but destroyed it by 1482, when Boabdil seized the throne. The new Sultan faced betrayals by his family, factions in the Alhambra palace, and ever more powerful onslaughts from the forces of Ferdinand and Isabella, monarchs of the newly united kingdoms of Castile and Aragon. By stratagem, diplomacy, courage and strength of will Boabdil prolonged his reign for ten years, but he never had much chance of survival. In 1492 Ferdinand and Isabella, magnificently attired in Moorish costume, entered Granada and took possession of the city. Boabdil went into exile. The Christian reconquest of Spain, that has reverberated so powerfully down the centuries, was complete.
The Moor's Last Sigh
The Moor's Last Sigh - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Moor's Last Sigh write by Salman Rushdie. This book was released on 2010-12-31. The Moor's Last Sigh available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In his first novel since The Satanic Verses, Rushdie gives readers a masterpiece of controlled storytelling, informed by astonishing scope and ambition, by turns compassionate, wicked, poignant, and funny. From the paradise of Aurora's legendary salon to his omnipotent father's sky-garden atop a towering glass high-rise, the Moor's story evokes his family's often grotesque but compulsively moving fortunes in a world of possibilities embodied by India in this century.
Blood and Faith
Blood and Faith - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Blood and Faith write by Matthew Carr. This book was released on 2017-02-17. Blood and Faith available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In 1609, the entire Muslim population of Spain was given three days to leave Spanish territory or else be killed. In a brutal and traumatic exodus, entire families were forced to abandon the homes and villages where they had lived for generations. In just five years, Muslim Spain had effectively ceased to exist: an estimated 300,000 Muslims had been removed from Spanish territory making it what was then the largest act of ethnic cleansing in European history. Blood and Faith is a riveting chronicle of this virtually unknown episode, set against the vivid historical backdrop of Muslim Spain. It offers 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 overwhelming odds.
The Story of the Moors in Spain
The Story of the Moors in Spain - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Story of the Moors in Spain write by Stanley Lane-Poole. This book was released on 1886. The Story of the Moors in Spain available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
The Satanic Verses
The Satanic Verses - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Satanic Verses write by Salman Rushdie. This book was released on 2000-12. The Satanic Verses available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Just before dawn one winter's morning, a hijacked jetliner explodes above the English Channel. Through the falling debris, two figures, Gibreel Farishta, the biggest star in India, and Saladin Chamcha, an expatriate returning from his first visit to Bombay in fifteen years, plummet from the sky, washing up on the snow-covered sands of an English beach, and proceed through a series of metamorphoses, dreams, and revelations.
