Named “one of the best books of 2016” by the Financial Times . . . 

A finalist for World Magazine’s Book of the Year . . .

This groundbreaking book demolishes the myth of a tolerant, multicultural Islamic “Golden Age.” 

“Essential reading.” —Antonio Carreño, Brown University  

“A watershed in scholarship.” —Raphael Israeli, Hebrew University of Jerusalem

“Desperately, desperately needed as a counter to the mythology that pervades academia on this subject.” —Paul F. Crawford, California University of Pennsylvania 

“An intelligent reinterpretation of a supposed paradise of convivencia.” —Julia Pavón Benito, University of Navarra
 
“A splendid book . . . Must-reading.” —Noël Valis, Yale University

“I am in awe of The Myth of the Andalusian Paradise.” —FrontPage Magazine

“A bracing remedy to a good deal of the academic pabulum that passes for scholarship.” —Middle East Quarterly

“An exhilarating and unput-downable read.” —Standpoint