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The Alhambra's Secret: Islamic Spain's Masterpiece and the Civilization It Embodied

The Alhambra's Secret: Islamic Spain's Masterpiece and the Civilization It Embodied

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IslamGeneral Middle Eastern HistorySpainish & Portuguese History

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ISBN13: 9798235751149
Publisher: Expedition Publishers
Pages: 208
Weight: 0.63
Height: 0.48 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

In 1362, a merchant climbed a hill above Granada and passed beneath a carved stone gate into the last Islamic kingdom Western Europe would ever know. What he found inside changed how he understood the world. This book will do the same for you.

The Alhambra's Secret is the story of a palace built by a civilization that knew it was dying. For two hundred and fifty four years, the Emirate of Granada survived alone, the final fragment of an empire that had once ruled almost the entire Iberian Peninsula. Its rulers paid tribute, brokered fragile peace, and poured their kingdom's wealth into building the most sophisticated palace in medieval Europe, a structure of reflecting pools, honeycombed ceilings, and walls inscribed floor to ceiling with poetry. They built beauty as a form of survival. It worked for longer than anyone had a right to expect.

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