"The Moors of Spain were a valorous people...in Mr. Cubitt's little volume, we have a succinct and graphic account of the rise, culmination, and decline of their dominion." -The Primitive Methodist Magazine, 1879
In George Cubitt's 1850 book "Granada: or, The expulsion of the Moors from Spain," it is proposed to give a brief history of the final expulsion of the Moors from Spain, towards the close of the fifteenth century.
Cubitt also provides an introductory sketch of the invasion which destroyed the Gothic, and established the Moslem, dominion in Spain; and of those continued contests between the Christians and Moors, which were carried through so many centuries, during which there was a regular, though slow, enlargement of Christian territory, resulting, in the course of the fifteenth century, in the limitation of Moorish rule to the rich, but small, province of Granada, at the southern extremity of the Peninsula.
In 711 the Islamic Arab and Moors of Berber descent in northern Africa crossed the Strait of Gibraltar onto the Iberian Peninsula, and in a series of raids they conquered Visigothic Christian Hispania. The Moorish Kingdom of Granada continued until 2 January 1492, the leader of the last Muslim stronghold in Granada surrendered to the armies of a recently united Christian Spain (after the marriage of Ferdinand II of Aragón and Isabella I of Castile, the "Catholic Monarchs").
Contents:
GRANADA.
I.—HISTORICAL INTRODUCTION.
SECTION II. THE SARACENS.
SECTION III. INVASION AND CONQ.UEST OF SPAIN BY THE MOORS.
SECTION IV. RISE OF THE MODERN SPANISH KINGDOM.
SECTION V. THE RISE, CULMINATION, AND DECLINE OF THE MOHAMMEDAN DOMINION IN SPAIN.
II.—EXPULSION OF THE MOORS FROM SPAIN.
SECTION I. THE KINGDOM OF GRANADA.
SECTION II. THE BREAKING OUT OF THE WAR.
SECTION III. THE PROSECUTION OF THE WAR.
SECTION IV. CAPTURE OF KING BOABDIL; AND PARTIAL SUSPENSION OF HOSTILITIES.
SECTION V. HOSTILITIES FORMALLY RECOMMENCED.
SECTION VI. THE WAR DRAWS NEARER TO GRANADA.
SECTION VII. THE SURRENDER OF THE CAPITAL, AND THE FINAL SUBJUGATION OF THE KINGDOM.
SECTION VIII. THE FINAL EXPULSION OF THE MOORS.
APPENDIX. GRANADA, &C, IN 1842.
About the author:
Rev. George Cubitt, D.D. (1791-1850) born in Norfolk, was converted in Sheffield, Yorkshire, in 1808to Methodism from the Church of England and was ordained minister in the Oxford Circuit. He ministered in St. John's from 1816 until he returned to England at the end of 1818. He was for fourteen years connectional editor of the Wesleyan publications.
