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Reconquest, Djihad, Diaspora: Three Visions of Spain At the Discovery of America
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 01 July 2024
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Thus Spain has two frontiers: one bordering on the region of the Infidels, the other with the Ocean.
Ibn Hauqal, Kitab Surat al-Ard (t. l, p. 108)
A crusading spirit colors the vision that most European historians, especially the Spanish, have of the Iberian peninsula's past. The classical conception of the Reconquest of the territory invaded by the Moors and redeemed for Christianity at the end of a secular war (in which the legendary figure of El Cid and Ferdinand the Catholic found glory) has been greatly qualified without ever having been abandoned entirely. Leaving aside the modern controversies, we shall try to throw some light upon the origins of the ideology of the “Reconquest”; for it is just that: an ideology whose aim was to justify a certain political action. We can better understand its meaning if we compare it to the two other ideologies then competing for the Iberian peninsula, the Islamic holy war (djihad), and the Judaic eschatological hope linked to the diaspora of the Sephardim.
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