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The Moor's Last Stand
- How Seven Centuries of Muslim Rule in Spain Came to an End
Engelsk Paperback
The Moor's Last Stand
- How Seven Centuries of Muslim Rule in Spain Came to an End
Engelsk Paperback

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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.
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Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
224
ISBN-13:
9781781256879
Indbinding:
Paperback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
178125687X
Udg. Dato:
1 mar 2018
Længde:
18mm
Bredde:
133mm
Højde:
198mm
Forlag:
Profile Books Ltd
Oplagsdato:
1 mar 2018
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