http://bactra.org/notebooks Cosma's Notebooks en http://bactra.org/notebooks/2007/08/20#al-andalus <P>Romanticization in later periods, by both Muslims and westerners. By modern standards, the religious situation in al-Andalus was one of serious and systematic violation of basic human rights; which is not to say that it wasn't, for much of its history, the most tolerant part of Europe! <P>See also: <a href="ibn-rushd.html">Ibn Rushd</a>; <a href="islam.html">Islam</a> <ul>Recommended: <li>Richard Fletcher, <cite>Moorish Spain</cite> <li>Marshall G. S. Hodgson, <cite>The Venture of Islam: Conscience and History in a World Civilization</cite> </ul> <ul>To read: <li>Roger Collins, <cite>The Arab Conquest of Spain, 710--797</cite> <li>Olivia R. Constable, <cite>Trade and Traders in Muslim Spain: The Commercial Realignment of the Iberian Peninsula, 900--1500</cite> <li>Mirabel Fierro and Julio Samso (eds.), <cite>The Formation of al-Andalus, Part 2: Language, Religion, Culture and the Sciences</cite> <li>Thomas F. Glick, <cite>Islamic and Christian Spain in the Early Middle Ages: Comparative Perspectives on Social and Cultural Formation</cite> [<a href="http://libro.uca.edu/ics/emspain.htm">On-line</a>] <li>L. P. Harvey <ul> <li><cite>Islamic Spain, 1250 to 1500</cite> <li><cite>Muslims in Spain, 1500 to 1614</cite> [<a href="http://www.press.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/hfs.cgi/00/16483.ctl">Blurb</a>] </ul> <li>Vivian B. Mann et al. (eds.), <cite>Convivencia: Jews, Muslims, and Christians in Medieval Spain</cite> <li>Maria Rosa Meoncal et al (eds.)< <cite>The Literature of al-Andalus</cite> <li>Mark D. Meyerson, <cite>The Muslims of Valencia in the Age of Fernando and Isabel: Between Coexistence and Crusade</citE> [<a href="http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/ft2q2nb14x/">Online</a>] <li>Mary Elizabeth Perry, <cite>The Handless Maiden: Moriscos and the Politics of Religion in Early Modern Spain</cite> [<a hef="http://pup.princeton.edu/titles/7957.html">Blurb</a>] <li>Janina M. Safran, <cite>The Second Umayyad Caliphate: The Artiticulation of Caliphal Legitimacy in al-Andalus</cite> </ul>