We are All Moors

We are All Moors
Title We are All Moors PDF eBook
Author Anouar Majid
Publisher U of Minnesota Press
Pages 246
Release 2009
Genre Social Science
ISBN 0816660794

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The Moor's Account

The Moor's Account
Title The Moor's Account PDF eBook
Author Laila Lalami
Publisher Vintage
Pages 360
Release 2014-09-09
Genre Fiction
ISBN 0307911675

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PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST • A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK • The imagined memoirs of the first black explorer of America—this "stunning [book] sheds light on all of the possible the New World exploration stories that didn’t make history” (Huffington Post). In these pages, Laila Lalami brings us the invented memoirs Mustafa al-Zamori, called Estebanico. The slave of a Spanish conquistador, Estebanico sails for the Americas with his master, Dorantes, as part of a danger-laden expedition to Florida. Within a year, Estebanico is one of only four crew members to survive. As he journeys across America with his Spanish companions, the Old World roles of slave and master fall away, and Estebanico remakes himself as an equal, a healer, and a remarkable storyteller. His tale illuminates the ways in which our narratives can transmigrate into history—and how storytelling can offer a chance at redemption and survival.

Moorish Spain

Moorish Spain
Title Moorish Spain PDF eBook
Author Richard A. Fletcher
Publisher Univ of California Press
Pages 226
Release 2006-05-05
Genre History
ISBN 9780520248403

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A good introductory picture of the Islamic presence in Spain, from the year 711 until the modern era.

Islam and America

Islam and America
Title Islam and America PDF eBook
Author Anouar Majid
Publisher Rowman & Littlefield
Pages 191
Release 2012
Genre Political Science
ISBN 1442214120

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is the enemy of future progress." --Daniel Martin Varisco, Hofstra University, author of Islam Obscured: The Rhetoric of Anthropological Representation --

The Story of the Moors in Spain

The Story of the Moors in Spain
Title The Story of the Moors in Spain PDF eBook
Author Stanley Lane-Poole
Publisher
Pages 324
Release 1886
Genre Arabs
ISBN

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The Moor's Last Stand

The Moor's Last Stand
Title The Moor's Last Stand PDF eBook
Author Elizabeth Drayson
Publisher Profile Books
Pages 272
Release 2017-04-20
Genre History
ISBN 1782832769

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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.

On Trails

On Trails
Title On Trails PDF eBook
Author Robert Moor
Publisher Simon and Schuster
Pages 352
Release 2017-07-04
Genre Nature
ISBN 1476739234

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"In 2009, while thru-hiking the Appalachian Trail, Robert Moor began to wonder about the paths that lie beneath our feet: How do they form? Why do some improve over time while others fade? What makes us follow or strike off on our own? Over the course of the next seven years, Moor traveled the globe, exploring trails of all kinds, from the miniscule to the massive. He learned the tricks of master trail-builders, hunted down long-lost Cherokee trails, and traced the origins of our road networks and the Internet. In each chapter, Moor interweaves his adventures with findings from science, history, philosophy, and nature writing--combining the nomadic joys of Peter Matthiessen with the eclectic wisdom of Lewis Hyde's The Gift. Throughout, Moor reveals how this single topic--the oft-overlooked trail--sheds new light on a wealth of age-old questions: How does order emerge out of chaos? How did animals first crawl forth from the seas and spread across continents? How has humanity's relationship with nature and technology shaped the world around us? And, ultimately, how does each of us pick a path through life? With a breathtaking arc that spans from the dawn of animal life to the digital era, On Trails is a book that makes us see our world, our history, our species, and our ways of life anew"--Book jacket flap.