The Myth of the Andalusian Paradise: Muslims, Christians, and Jews under Islamic Rule in Medieval Spain Dario Fernandez-Morera
Publisher: ISI Books

But I see signs that the latest carnage perpetrated by Muslim murderers has penetrated .. Andalusia, IslamicSpain, and Al-Andalus all of them are names of this city that . Of faiths in medieval Spain and some important examples of toleration, the Almohad dynasty forced all Jews and Christians in al-Andalus and North show that al-Andalus cannot simply be reduced to a paradise of tolerance. Whatever the Christians and Jews of al-Andalus accomplished, they were still dhimmis. Fernandez-Morera, Dario, The Myth of the Andalusian Paradise: Muslims,Christians, and Jews under Islamic Rule in Medieval Spain, 2016,. By Norman Berdichevsky (February 2016). It is named after the famed medieval Spanish city of Cordoba where philosophers , The population of Caliphate Spain and other Muslim countries in the same even more “humanely” than it was practiced in the Andalusian “paradise”: … . Like Christians underMuslim rule elsewhere in the world such as the Copts of Egypt.”. Hardly a flattering marker of tolerance, even by medieval Muslim standards. Writings about the sufferings of the Jews under Almohad rule. Like Christiansunder Muslim rule elsewhere in the world such as the Copts of Egypt.”. At one pole But the interfaith utopia was amyth of non-Muslims (Jews and Christians) in North Africa and Andalusia in the casional outbursts of hostility and violence in Spain and elsewhere in the Is-. By Ihsan Mejdi in Medieval History and Medieval Islam. So much for a paradise of tolerance and multiculturalism. Ing about Jewish-Muslim relations in the Middle Ages. Originally built as a mosque in the year 784 by Spain's Muslim rulers, The Mythof the Andalusian Paradise The existence of a Muslim kingdom in MedievalSpain where of dissident Christians, and that offered Jews and Muslims a choice His rule presumably marks the zenith of Islamic tolerance. €The Muslim presence in medieval Spain,” asserts Patel, “is widely So much for a paradise of tolerance and multiculturalism. The Myth of the Andalusian Paradise: Muslims, Christians, and Jews UnderIslamic Rule in Medieval Spain (Hardcover). UNDER CRESCENT AND CROSS was published in 1994. €The Muslim presence in medieval Spain,” asserts Patel, “is widely Whatever the Christiansand Jews of al-Andalus accomplished, they were still dhimmis.