Jocelyn Hendrickson, "Leaving Iberia: Islamic Law and Christian Conquest in North West Africa" (Harvard UP, 2020)
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Leaving Iberia, a Book Review
Book examines islamic legal responses to moslems living under christian rule in iberia and north africa in the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries. The fall of andelus, also known as the christianr conquest of iberia, is often described as a turning point in islamic history when some of the first substantial moslem populations fell under permanent christian rule. Moslems had found themselves under non-muslim rule in other parts of the world but those cases involved smaller populations or were temporary. We did find a very well established moslem population that had ruled parts of the peninsula for nearly 800 years from seven 11 until 14 92 surrender of gran
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