About the Author

L. P. Harvey is professor emeritus of Spanish at the University of London and a fellow of King s College, London. He is currently a research associate at the Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies. Harvey s previous book, "Islamic Spain, 1250 to 1500," is also published by the University of Chicago Press."

Reviews

"L. P. Harvey's important new book, Muslims in Spain: 1500 to 1614, soberly recounts the ways in which Muslim culture and religion, which had been part of Spanish life for eight centuries, was forcibly suppressed, until Muslims were completely expelled from Spain, between 1609 and 1614. There was much trauma and bloodshed, much secrecy and much dissimulation."--Edward Rothstein "New York Times" (6/13/2005 12:00:00 AM)

"L. P. Harvey is the leading authority on Morisco culture, the parameters of which he had largely defined. In Professor Harvey's first book, Islamic Spain, 1250 to 1500, he contextualized the culture of the Moriscos by providing a political narrative. That book is now considered a classic. Muslims in Spain, 1500 to 1614 is crafted in such a way as not to allow the reader ever to lose track of the unfolding tragedy, whose final act was the first sustained, government-directed ethnic cleansing of modern times. . . . I believe Muslims in Spain will be even more of a classic than his first book."Islamic and Christian Spain in the Early Middles Ages>
-- "Thomas F. Glick"

"The year's most rewarding historical work is L. P. Harvey's Muslims inSpain1500-1614, a sobering account of the various ways in which a venerable Islamic culture fell victim to Christian bigotry. Harvey never urges the topicality of his subject on us, but this aspect inevitably sharpens an already compelling book."--Jonathan Keates "Times Literary Supplement" (12/2/2005 12:00:00 AM)