The rise and fall of paradise

By Elmer Bendiner

Book Overview

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0399128573
• ISBN13: 9780399128578
• Release Date: January 1
• Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 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.