From Iberia to Diaspora

A pesar de haber mantenido históricamente largos y fecundos contactos, y de su presencia cada vez más activa en nuestra sociedad contemporánea, el islam es aún para nosotros, en términos generales, un gran desconocido. En el presente libro, el profesor Vernet (uno de sus mayores especialistas occidentales, autoridad internacional en el campo de la ciencia árabe y traductor del Corán y de “Las mil y una noches”) nos presenta, con gran amenidad y sencillez expositiva, sus principios básicos, su primera historia y su primer desarrollo. El presente libro habrá de ser una excelente...

Introducción, traducción y notas de J. García Blanco y P. Jiménez Gazapo. Revisada por L. A. de Cuenca.

Bernal Díaz del Castillo (1492-1584) was a foot soldier in the army of Mexico's conqueror Hernán Cortés. The first edition of his True History of the Conquest of New Spain (as it was entitled in a later English translation) was published in Madrid in 1632 from a manuscript copy sent to Spain shortly after the author's death. Written in a highly accessible style, and describing the experiences of the troops themselves rather than seeing events from an officer's perspective, the work became even more successful than the official accounts and went through many editions and translations. The...

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