Blood and Faith: The Purging of Muslim Spain

by Matthew Carr

Book Overview

A centuries-old story with remarkable contemporary resonance, Blood and Faith is celebrated journalist Matthew Carr's riveting and "richly detailed" (Choice) chronicle of what was, by 1614, the largest act of ethnic cleansing in European history.

Months after King Philip III of Spain signed an edict in 1609 denouncing the Muslim inhabitants of Spain as heretics, traitors, and apostates, the entire Muslim population of Spain was...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1595586407
• ISBN13: 9781595586407
• Release Date: July 2011
• Publisher: New Press
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.5" x 8.3"