Spain's Moorish past is evident everywhere you look. For centuries, Christians, Muslims and Jews lived in Spain side by side in peace, and it was home to some of the greatest minds in the world. After the Moors' expulsion in the seventeenth century, much of their knowledge, skill and artistry was lost. Jason Webster originally travelled to Spain to play the flamenco guitar. A qualified Arabist, he now embarks on a quest for Spain's forgotten Arab legacy, and gets embroiled with characters who are as wild and original as those he described so vividly in Duende. What lessons can we learn today from the harmony that existed for so long in medieval Spain - and from the subsequent expulsion of its Muslims and Jews?
- ISBN10 0552771244
- ISBN13 9780552771245
- Publish Date 3 January 2005 (first published 1 April 2004)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 1 June 2009
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Transworld Publishers Ltd
- Imprint Black Swan
- Edition New edition
- Format Paperback (B-Format (198x129 mm))
- Pages 320
- Language English