Nazarí
Villén Lucena, Mario
Alarcos, 1195. The Muslim army has defeated the troops led by the Castilian king Alfonso VIII. The joy is twofold for Asquilula, Andalusian naqîb: he returns home victorious and that same day he knows of the birth of his first grandson: Muhammad bin al-Ahmar. There are troubled times in the Iberian Peninsula, politically and culturally divided. In the north, the Christian kingdoms fight each other; in the Muslim south, unity does not reign either. They will be years of battles and deaths, betrayals and compromises, truces and pacts dotted with riots and incursions on either side of the border. These are hard times in which life hangs by a thread. And it will be in those years when Muhammad bin al-Ahmar, from his native Arjona, becomes a fierce Cegrí who will fight tirelessly on the border with Castilla. Acclaimed as a sayj, he led the fight of his people to survive the constant attacks of the Christian kingdoms, he became emir and gathered under his hand the remains of al-Andalus after the Navas de Tolosa. Having as enemies his own co-religionists and, to the north, the firm and determined King Ferdinand III the Holy, he built not only a kingdom, but a new dynasty, the Nasrid one, to the glory of al-Andalus and of History. And on his way he was never alone... This is a historical novel of battles, political conflicts, diplomacy and trickery, but also of love, friendship and hope. A novel focused on one of the most troubled periods of our past, the Reconquest, but seen as never before, from the Andalusian gaze. In short, a novel about a legendary character.
- Author
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Villén Lucena, Mario
- Subject
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Literature
> Spanish narrative 20th-21st cent.
- EAN
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9788435063456
- ISBN
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978-84-350-6345-6
- Edition
- 1
- Publisher
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Edhasa
- Pages
- 576
- High
- 23.0 cm
- Weight
- 15.0 cm
- Release date
- 15-06-2020
- Language
- Spanish
- Series
- Narrativas históricas