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

In Kingdoms of Faith, award-winning historian Brian A. Catlos rewrites the history of Islamic Spain from the ground up, evoking the cultural splendor of al-Andalus, while offering an authoritative new interpretation of the forces that shaped it.

Prior accounts have portrayed Islamic Spain as a paradise of enlightened tolerance or the site where civilizations clashed. Catlos taps a wide array of primary sources to paint a more complex portrait, showing how Muslims, Christians, and Jews together built a sophisticated civilization that transformed the Western world, even as they waged relentless war against each other and their coreligionists. Religion was often the language of conflict, but seldom its cause--a lesson we would do well to learn in our own time.

作者簡介

卡洛斯Brian A. Carlos

科羅拉多大學波德分校宗教研究係教授，專長為伊比利半島的穆斯林研究。著有Infidel Kings and Unholy Warriors等獲獎之作。他在美國科羅拉多州和西班牙巴塞隆納兩頭住。

譯者簡介

梁永安

颱灣大學人類學學士、哲學碩士，目前為專業翻譯者，完成約近百本譯著，譯有《再造失去的王國：俄羅斯的帝國雄心500年史》、《李維史陀：實驗室裡的詩人》、《老年之書》、《文化與抵抗》、《帕德嫩之謎》和《非洲失落的白色部落》等書。