Emeralds of the Alhambra: Volume 1 (Anthems of al-Andalus) - Softcover

Cressler, John D

Softcover

ISBN 10: 162006197X ISBN 13: 9781620061978

Verlag: Milford House Press, 2013

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How could we forget? We live in a world being torn apart by religious tensions and fanaticism, yet we managed to forget that for hundreds of years Christians, Muslims and Jews lived together in peace, sharing languages and customs, embracing a level of tolerance and mutual respect unheard of today. Working together, these three peoples spawned one of the great intellectual and cultural flowerings of history. When and where? Medieval Spain. Our aching world desperately needs to recall this forgotten fact, these rich possibilities.

Emeralds of the Alhambra, a historical novel, reawakens this remarkable era via the relationship between William Chandon, a wounded Christian knight brought to the Sultan’s court in Granada, and the strong-willed Layla al-Khatib, who is on a quest to become the first female Sufi Muslim mystic in a male-dominated society. As Chandon’s influence at court grows, he becomes trapped between his forbidden love for Layla, his Christian heritage, the demands of chivalry, and political expediency. Chandon must make a choice between love and honor, peace and war, life and death, a choice which ultimately will seal Granada’s fate as the last surviving stronghold of Muslim Spain.

Emeralds is set in the resplendent Alhambra Palace in Granada during the Castilian Civil War (1367-1369), a time when, improbably, Muslims took up their swords to fight alongside Christians.

Emeralds of the Alhambra is the first book in the trilogy Anthems of al-Andalus.

Biografía del autor

He is Ken Byers Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Georgia Tech. He received his Ph.D. from Columbia University in 1990. He spent 8 years at IBM Research and 10 years on the faculty at Auburn University before joining Georgia Tech in 2002. His research interests center on the creative use of nanoscale-engineering techniques to enable new approaches to high-speed electronic design and utilization, as required to support the emerging global communications infrastructure. He and his students have published over 500 scientific papers in this field. He has received a number awards for both his research and his teaching, including the 2010 Class of 1940 W. Howard Ector Outstanding Teacher Award (Georgia Tech's top teaching award), the 2011 IEEE Leon Kirchmayer Graduate Teaching Award (the IEEE's top graduate teaching award), and the 2013 Class of 1934 Distinguished Professor Award (Georgia Tech's highest faculty honor). Emeralds of the Alhambra, his debut novel, and book one in the Anthems of al-Andalus series, will be released in June 2013 by Sunbury Press. Emeralds is historical fiction, an interfaith love story set in medieval Muslim Spain. His non-fiction books include: Silicon-Germanium Heterojunction Bipolar Transistors (2003), Reinventing Teenagers: the Gentle Art of Instilling Character in Our Young People (2004), Silicon Heterostructure Handbook: Materials, Fabrication, Devices, Circuits and Applications of SiGe and Si Strained Layer Epitaxy (2006), Silicon Earth: Introduction to the Microelectronics and Nanotechnology Revolution (2009), and Extreme Environment Electronics (2013). Reinventing Teenagers and Silicon Earth are for general audiences. John and his wife Maria have been married for 30 years and are the proud parents of three: Matthew, Christina and Joanna. Their two new additions to the family include Matt's wife, Mary Ellen (and now baby Ellie!), and Christina's husband, Michael. John's hobbies include hiking, gardening, bonsai, all things Italian, collecting (and drinking!) fine wines, cooking, history, and carving walking sticks, not necessarily in that order. He considers teaching/mentoring of young-folk to be his primary vocation, with his writing a close second!

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Milford House Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2013
• ISBN 10: 162006197X
• ISBN 13: 9781620061978
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Sprache: Englisch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 444