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Sto caricando le informazioni... The Martyrs of Cordoba: Community and Family Conflict in an Age of Mass Conversiondi Jessica A. Coope
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. This is a brief study of a spate of executions in 9th century Cordoba, when a group of around 50 Christians were executed, either for denouncing Islam or for apostasy. Coope provides an interesting overview of the incidents, and of the sources which scholars have concerning the event, especially the account written by the priest Eulogius, but this is largely a work of synthesis which seems to offer little new by way of insight or methodology. (Though I confess that medieval Spain is not my main area of focus.) Still, a very lucidly written introduction to the topic. ( ) nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
Between 850 and 859 (Christian Era), the Muslim government of Córdoba ordered the execution of forty-eight Christians. With few exceptions, these Christians invited execution by committing capital offenses: some appeared before the Muslim authorities to denounce Mohammed; others, Christian children of mixed Islamic-Christian marriages, publicly proclaimed their Christianity. Coope investigates the origins of this "martyrs' movement" in Córdoba, then flourishing as a center of Islamic culture. She cites the fears of radical Christians that conversions to Islam were on the increase and that still more Christians were being assimilated into Arab Muslim culture. These fears were well-founded, and the executions further divided Cordovan Christians: some believed the executed to be martyrs, others argued that these were not martyrs but fanatics and troublemakers. For their part, the Muslim authorities, disposed to be tolerant, would have preferred sectarian peace; the martyrs were given every opportunity to recant. Using Christian sources (particularly the hagiographies of St. Eulogius) and Arabic accounts to understand the complex tensions in Muslim Spain between and among the Muslim majority and Christian minority, Coope presents a valuable and fresh view of this society at the apogee of al-Andalus, Muslim Spain. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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Google Books — Sto caricando le informazioni... GeneriSistema Decimale Melvil (DDC)272Religions History, geographic treatment, biography of Christianity PersecutionsClassificazione LCVotoMedia:
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