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Rise, Andalus: The Fall of Imperial Harlotry
258 pages, Paperback
Published September 20, 2025
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October 11, 2025
Fr Marc Boulos’s third book, Rise, Andalus: the Fall of Imperial Harlotry, is both a dense and an unsparing text. It is unsparing, precisely because it militates Scripturally against all human power structures and forms of self-justification. And it is dense of necessity, because it fulfils four closely-interlinked literary functions.
Rise, Andalus functions firstly as a counter-history of Levantine and Iberian (and thus ‘world’ as interpreted through a Eurocentric lens) history. It ruthlessly exposes the mendacity at the core of the Trastámara myth which undergirds the justification for the Western European projects of Crusade, Renaissance, Reconquista and the Age of Exploration. In its place Fr Marc presents us with the ‘borderless table’ which was the material practice of the Jews, Muslims and Semitic Christians in the Holy Land under Ṣalaḥ ad-Din, and later in the Andalusian polity, and which had remained the prevailing material practice until very recently in the Levant (Syria, Lebanon, Palestine). The difference is presented as the acknowledgement, not of any family or bloodline or empire or institution, but of Him Alone...
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Rise, Andalus functions firstly as a counter-history of Levantine and Iberian (and thus ‘world’ as interpreted through a Eurocentric lens) history. It ruthlessly exposes the mendacity at the core of the Trastámara myth which undergirds the justification for the Western European projects of Crusade, Renaissance, Reconquista and the Age of Exploration. In its place Fr Marc presents us with the ‘borderless table’ which was the material practice of the Jews, Muslims and Semitic Christians in the Holy Land under Ṣalaḥ ad-Din, and later in the Andalusian polity, and which had remained the prevailing material practice until very recently in the Levant (Syria, Lebanon, Palestine). The difference is presented as the acknowledgement, not of any family or bloodline or empire or institution, but of Him Alone...
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