The Moors are coming, the Moors are coming!: Encounters with Muslims in contemporary Spain

For centuries the Spaniards have celebrated ‘Moors and Christians’, a popular enactment of the arrival of Islam in Spain and the subsequent Reconquista of the peninsula by Catholic forces. In this article we shall analyze how this celebration has evolved from being a religious commemoration and has...

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Main Author: Borreguero Sancho, Eva 1964- (Author)
Format: Electronic/Print Article
Language:English
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Published: Routledge 2006
In: Islam and Christian-Muslim relations
Year: 2006, Volume: 17, Issue: 4, Pages: 417-432
Further subjects:B minorities / marginal groups
B Islam
B Minderheiten / Randgruppen
B Spain
Online Access: Volltext (doi)