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Revision as of 12:40, 30 August 2012 by Khestwol (talk | contribs) (Undid revision 509924968 by Gun Powder Ma (talk) per consensus)(diff) ← Previous revision | Latest revision (diff) | Newer revision → (diff)La Convivencia ("the Coexistence") is the period of Spanish history from the Muslim Umayyad conquest of Hispania in the early eighth century until the completion of the Christian Reconquista in the late fifteenth century, when Muslims, Christians and Jews in Moorish Iberia lived in relative peace together within the different kingdoms (during the same time, however, the Christian reclaiming of land conquered by the Moors was ongoing). The phrase often refers to the interplay of cultural ideas between the three groups, and ideas of religious tolerance. James Carroll invokes this concept and indicates that it played an important role in bringing the classics of Greek philosophy to Europe, with translations from Greek to Arabic to Hebrew and Latin.
Mark Cohen, Professor of Near Eastern Studies at Princeton University, in his Under Crescent and Cross, calls the idealized interfaith utopia a "myth" that was first promulgated by Jewish historians such as Heinrich Graetz in the 19th century as a rebuke to Christian countries for their treatment of Jews. This myth was met with the "counter-myth" of the "neo-lachrymose conception of Jewish-Arab history" by Bat Yeor and others, which also "cannot be maintained in the light of historical reality".
See also
- Al-Andalus (Moorish-governed Iberia)
- Moors (Muslims in Al-Andalus)
- Muladi (Christian converts to Islam)
- Mozarab (Christians in Al-Andalus)
- Mudéjar (Muslims in Christendom)
- Sephardim (Jews in Iberia)
- Morisco (Muslim converts to Catholism)
- Pablo Alvaro (a Jewish convert to Catholicism)
- Bishop Bodo (a Catholic convert to Judaism)
- Golden age of Jewish culture in Spain
Sources and further reading
- Catlos, Brian. The Victors and the Vanquished: Christians and Muslims of Catalonia and Aragon, 1050-1300. 2004. ISBN 0-521-82234-3
- Esperanza Alfonso, Islamic culture through Jewish eyes : al-Andalus from the tenth to twelfth century. 2007 ISBN 978-0-415-43732-5
- Fernández-Morera, Darío : "The Myth of the Andalusian Paradise", in: The Intercollegiate Review, Fall 2006, pp. 23–31
- O'Shea, Stephen. Sea of Faith: Islam and Christianity in the Medieval Mediterranean World. Walker & Company: 2006. ISBN 0-8027-1517-6.
- Pick, Lucy. Conflict and Coexistence: Archbishop Rodrigo and the Muslims and Jews of Medieval Spain. Oxbow Books: 2004. ISBN 0-472-11387-9.
- Vivan Mann, et al., eds. Convivencia: Jews, Muslims, and Christians in Medieval Spain. George Braziller: 1992. ISBN 0-8076-1286-3.
- Maria Rosa Menocal. "Ornament of the World: How Muslims, Jews, and Christians Created a Culture of Tolerance in Medieval Spain." 2003. ISBN 0-316-56688-8.
Additional References
- Rageh Omaar. An Islamic History of Europe. 90-minute video documentary for BBC Four, 2005.
- Catherine Bott. Convivencia. Music CD of Spanish and Moorish songs from the period.
- Convivencia. International research project.
References
- Carroll, James (2001), Constantine's Sword: The Church and the Jews, Chapter 33. Houghton Mifflin, Co., Boston.
- ^ Cohen, Mark R. (1995). Under Crescent and Cross. Princeton University Press. ISBN 0-691-01082-X.
{{cite book}}: Unknown parameter|month=ignored (help) - Daniel J. Lasker (1997). "Review of Under Crescent and Cross. The Jews in the Middle Ages by Mark R. Cohen". The Jewish Quarterly Review. 88 (1/2): 76–78.
External links
- Darío Fernández-Morera: "The Myth of the Andalusian Paradise", The Intercollegiate Review, Fall 2006
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