The Martyrs of Córdoba: Community and Family Conflict in an Age of Mass Conversion

by Jessica Coope

Book Overview

Between 850 and 859 (Christian Era), the Muslim government of C rdoba 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 C rdoba, then...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0803214715
• ISBN13: 9780803214712
• Release Date: April 1995
• Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
• Length: 115 Pages
• Weight: 0.69 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.8" x 8.8"