Kingdoms of Faith: A New History of Islamic Spain

Kingdoms of Faith: A New History of Islamic Spain

A magisterial, myth-dispelling history of Islamic Spain spanning the millennium between the founding of Islam in the seventh century and the final expulsion of Spain's Muslims in the seventeenth
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