A Different Perspective: The Traveler's Guide to Medieval (Islamic) Spain and Portugal - Softcover

Fisken, Alec

 
9780578633664: A Different Perspective: The Traveler's Guide to Medieval (Islamic) Spain and Portugal
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0578633663 ISBN 13: 9780578633664
Verlag: Alec Fisken, 2020

Inhaltsangabe

A Different Perspective is written for travelers to Spain and Portugal who find history part of the pleasure of the trip. In cities where the cathedral is more often than not built on top of a mosque, which may itself have been built on top of a Visigoth church, this book is written to help the traveler spot remnants of those earlier structures and other monuments from the centuries when the Iberian Peninsula was ruled by powerful Islamic empires.

The book includes a brief history of those centuries when Arabic was the lingua franca in most of the Peninsula and Cordoba was one of the largest cities in the world. It outlines the empires that ruled this part of the world, from Damascus, Cordoba and Marrakesh, and notes the walls, towers, and design elements that remain from their rule.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Alec Fisken lives in Seattle where he has served as an elected port commissioner, financial advisor to the City, and a magazine and newspaper publisher. He has worked as a consultant in the European Union and in West, Central, and North Africa and traveled extensively in the Mediterranean. Alec's undergraduate degree in history is from Yale University and he received a master in public administration degree from the Kennedy School at Harvard.

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Verlag
Alec Fisken
Erscheinungsdatum
2020
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0578633663
ISBN 13 
9780578633664
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
120
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