Little, Brown The Ornament Of The World

I love this book , written with great love for coexistence

I read The Ornament of the World during a recent journey through al-Andalus and Morocco and it became an inspiring guidebook, whose stories manage to tie together so many threads of the region's cultural past. It is also a welcome challenge to the prevailing prejudices of the Christian version of history which we in the west are so familiar with.

His is book is exactly what I wanted and arrived in perfect condition.

This is one of the explorations of Medieval Spain everyone should read. Brilliant analysis by Menocal that describes how Moslems, Jews and Christians not only lived together but also shared Arabic as a courtly language.

This book fills in an important period of history, not just of Cordoba, tying together all sorts of people and events I had, at best, only marginal knowldge of.