Crucible of Light
Islam and Europe from the 8th to the 21st Century
- Paperback
592 pages
- Release Date
30 September 2025
Summary
In Crucible of Light, Elizabeth Drayson pulls together the epic interwoven history of the Muslim and Christian worlds over an 800-year span, taking in the conquest and re-conquest of Spain, the meteoric rise of Arabo-Norman Sicily, the Ottoman renaissance of the 16th to 18th centuries, the ebb and flow of Balkan history and the fate of contested islands like Cyprus and Malta, with their very different outcomes.
Focusing on major turning points, individual stories and key plac…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781035008605 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1035008602 |
| Author: | Elizabeth Drayson |
| Publisher: | Pan Macmillan |
| Imprint: | Picador |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 592 |
| Release Date: | 30 September 2025 |
| Weight: | 752g |
| Dimensions: | 45mm x 154mm x 234mm |
| Audience Age: | 18 |
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Elizabeth Drayson
Elizabeth Drayson is Emeritus Fellow in Spanish at Murray Edwards College, University of Cambridge. She specialises in medieval and early modern Spanish literature and cultural history, and has a particular interest in the Arabic, Jewish, and Christian cultures of medieval and Golden Age Spain. Her books include The Moor’s Last Stand (2017), which featured among The Times and the Sunday Times History Books of the Year 2017 and Lost Paradise: the story of Granada (2021). She is also a central figure in a major European-wide research project charting the legacy of Islam in eastern Europe in the 20th century.
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