Books by Brian A. (Associate Professor of History and Religious Studies Catlos

Through crusades and expulsions Muslim communities survived for over 500 years and thrived in medieval Europe. This is the first book to tell the story of how the presence of Muslim communities transformed Europe from architecture to cooking, literature to science, and stimulated Christian society to define itself.

This lively study of Muslims living under Christian rule in medieval Spain confronts questions of community relations, politics, trade and government, through a study of the common people of the era. It focuses on the evolution of an independent Islamic society into one living under Christian political domination.