In the seventh and eighth centuries, the Muslim Arabs conquered large areas of North Africa and then, with the help of their former adversaries in North Africa,

Negotiates ethnic, religious, and gender identity amid turbulent social change in medieval Islamic Spain

Forbidden Passages is the first book to document and evaluate the impact of Moriscos—Christian converts from Islam—in the early modern Americas, and how the

An innovative study which explores how the presence of Muslim communities transformed Europe and stimulated Christian society to define itself.