The Rise and Fall of Paradise

By Elmer Bendiner

Book Overview

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0880294663
• ISBN13: 9780880294669
• Release Date: January 1990
• Publisher: Dorset Press / Hippocrene Books
• Length: 254 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.

Customer Reviews

The opposite of Asimov

Written in a fresh style and full of insights instead of fact reciting, it replaces a hundred history textbooks about Cordoba's caliphate. For this alone you should read it, even if Jewish history or muslim Spain don't stir your interest. It is a short, rare jewel.