For Christ’s Sake
Subtitle: Part One of the revised edition of ‘Blood on the Cross’
By: Ahmad Thomson and Muhammad 'Ata ur-Rahim.
Contributors: ʻAta ur-Rahim, Muhammad.; Thomson, Ahmad.; Thomson, Ahmad.
Publisher: Ta-Ha
Published: 1996
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 168
Copyright date: 1996
Subjects: Christianity and other religions -- Islam.; Islam -- Relations -- Christianity.; Islam -- Spain -- History.
Notes: The main purpose of both the original and revised editions of **Blood on the Cross** has been to explore the history of that extraordinary period during which the Muslims first flourished and then perished in the Iberian peninsula, which used to to be called Andalus but which now comprises Spain and Portugal. When research into this project first began, it soon became clear that the history of Islam in Andalus could not be understood without first considering the origins of and the interaction between Unitarian and Trinitarian Christianity. **For Christ’s Sake** traces the almost total annihilation of the Unitarian Christians at the hands of the Trinitarian church by means of the Mediaeval and Spanish Inquisitions. Without this analysis, it is virtually impossible to understand how it was that the inhabitants of the Iberian peninsula in the 8th century CE embraced Islam so readily and rapidly – and how it was that the Jews and Muslims of Spain in the 16th century CE were either exterminated by the Spanish Inquisition or forced to flee for their lives.