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Article: Muslims in Spain: 1500 to 1614.(Book review)
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- Renaissance Quarterly
- Article date:
- March 22, 2006
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L. P. Harvey. Muslims in Spain: 1500 to 1614.
Chicago and London: Chicago University Press, 2005. xiv + 448 pp. index. append. map. bibl. $40. ISBN: 0-226-31963-6.
In Muslims in Spain: 1500 to 1614, L. P. Harvey insists that the Muslims of Spain were a part of early modern Europe. The unprecedented 1609-14 expulsion of baptized Christians from a Christian land, the remnants of the Muslims of Spain, may shock us today. In the preface, Harvey notes that "the Muslims of the Iberian Peninsula felt as secure in their entitlement to their lands as do the present citizens of the United States in theirs." Those entitlements are relatively new from a Native ...