Title: We are all Moors : ending centuries of crusades against Muslims and other minorities /
Authors: Majid, Anouar, 1960-
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press,
Year: 2009
Subjects: Christianity and other religions Islam History.; Christianity and other religions Judaism History; Islam Relations Christianity; Judaism Relations Christianity; Muslims America History.; Jews Islamic countries History.
Abstract: "In 1609 King Philip III ordered the expulsion of all Moriscos - Spaniards of Muslim descent - from Spain in an ongoing attempt to establish a homogeneous state and remove the last vestiges of Islam from his nation. Four centuries later, Spain and Europe are once again outraged by the presence of Islam within their borders, and, for many, the millions of Muslim immigrants now living there pose a fundamental challenge to European identity. ... In We Are All Moors, Anouar Majid contends that the acrimonious debates about immigration and Islam in the West are the cultural legacy of the conflict between Christians and Moors. Offering a groundbreaking new history of the West's perception and treatment of minority cultures, Majid explores how "the Moor" emerged as the archetypal Other against which Europe would define itself and the ways in which the characteristics attributed to this quintessential minority - racial inferiority, religious impurity, cultural incompatibility - would be reapplied to other non-European and non-Christian peoples: Native Americans, black Africans, Jews, and minority immigrant communities, among others."--Jacket.
Contents: Introduction: specters of the Moor -- Pious cruelty -- New world Moors -- Muslim Jews -- Undesirable aliens: Hispanics in America, Muslims in Europe -- Conclusion: we are all Moors.