title: Blood and Faith: The Purging of Muslim Spain
author:  Matthew Carr 
description: <div>&#147;Offers a grim lesson about religious and racial repression in our contemporary age of contested faiths.&#8221;<BR>&mdash;David Levering Lewis, author of <I>God&#8217;s Crucible: Islam and the Making of Europe, 570-1215</I><BR><BR>&#147;Carr deftly narrates the complex events leading up to this little-known but horrific episode as a warning against religious intolerance and xenophobia.&#8221;<BR>&mdash;<I>Publishers Weekly</I><BR><BR>&#147;A fascinating account of perhaps the first major episode of European ethnic cleansing and, just as importantly, the story of the beginning of the conviction that &#145;blood&#8217; matters more than belief; a conviction that led, in the end, to modern racism.&#8221;<BR>&mdash;Kwame Anthony Appiah<BR></div>
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  Table of Contents
  
  
    
  
  
  [ALSO BY MATTHEW CARR](Blood_and_Faith_split_002.html#filepos4118)
  
  
  [Title Page](Blood_and_Faith_split_000.html#filepos176)
  
  
  [Acknowledgements](Blood_and_Faith_split_003.html#filepos4503)
  
  
  [Introduction](Blood_and_Faith_split_004.html#filepos6403)
  
  
  [Prologue: “The End of Spain’s
  Calamities”](Blood_and_Faith_split_005.html#filepos20941)
  
  
    
  
  
  [Part I - Conquest to Conversion](Blood_and_Faith_split_006.html#filepos48385)
  
  
  [Chapter 1 - The Iberian
  Exception](Blood_and_Faith_split_007.html#filepos49582)
  
  
  [Chapter 2 - The Victors](Blood_and_Faith_split_008.html#filepos83964)
  
  
  [Chapter 3 - The Vanquished](Blood_and_Faith_split_009.html#filepos124979)
  
  
  [Chapter 4 - Broken Promises: Granada
  1492–1500](Blood_and_Faith_split_010.html#filepos156691)
  
  
  [Chapter 5 - Rebellion and
  Conversion](Blood_and_Faith_split_011.html#filepos182947)
  
  
  [Chapter 6 - Faith Triumphant](Blood_and_Faith_split_012.html#filepos204970)
  
  
  [Chapter 7 - The Last Redoubt: Aragon
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