Books by Eliyahu Ashtor

Takes the reader on a journey through history, from 711 CE on the slopes of Gibraltar (when the Moslems conquered the Iberian peninsula) through the centuries of the flowering of Jewish culture, ""The Golden Age of Spanish Jewry"", and closes with the 11th century re-conquest of Spain.

Takes the reader on a journey through history, from 711 CE on the slopes of Gibraltar (when the Moslems conquered the Iberian peninsula) through the centuries of the flowering of Jewish culture, ""The Golden Age of Spanish Jewry"", and closes with the 11th century re-conquest of Spain.

This collection of articles focuses on the fundamental question of why, during the later Middle Ages, technology and industry declined - even collapsed - in the Muslim Levant, while simultaneously making enormous progress in the Christian West.