Moorish Spain

Moorish Spain

Author: Richard A. Fletcher

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 2006-05-05

Total Pages: 226

ISBN-13: 9780520248403

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A good introductory picture of the Islamic presence in Spain, from the year 711 until the modern era.


Moorish Culture in Spain

Moorish Culture in Spain

Author: Titus Burckhardt

Publisher:

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781887752282

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Unique study of the spirit and artistic fluorescence of the 800 years of Moorish dominance.


The Moors in Spain: History of the Conquest, 800 year Rule & The Final Fall of Granada

The Moors in Spain: History of the Conquest, 800 year Rule & The Final Fall of Granada

Author: Stanley Lane-Poole

Publisher: e-artnow

Published: 2018-04-22

Total Pages: 183

ISBN-13: 8026892658

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This carefully crafted ebook is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. In 711 the Islamic Moors of Arab and Berber descent in North Africa crossed the Strait of Gibraltar onto the Iberian Peninsula, and in a series of raids they conquered Visigothic Christian Hispania and founded the first Muslim countries in Europe. Contents: The Last of the Goths The Wave of Conquest The People of Andalusia A Young Pretender The Christian Martyrs The Great Khalif The Holy War The City of the Khalif The Prime Minister The Berbers in Power My Cid the Challenger The Kingdom of Granada The Fall of Granada Bearing the Cross


Forbidden Passages

Forbidden Passages

Author: Karoline P. Cook

Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press

Published: 2016-05-30

Total Pages: 272

ISBN-13: 0812248244

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Forbidden Passages is the first book to document and evaluate the impact of Moriscos—Christian converts from Islam—in the early modern Americas, and how their presence challenged notions of what it meant to be Spanish as the Atlantic empire expanded.


Golden Age of the Moor

Golden Age of the Moor

Author: Ivan Van Sertima

Publisher: Transaction Pub

Published: 1992

Total Pages: 462

ISBN-13: 9781560005810

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This work examines the debt owed by Europe to the Moors for the Renaissance and the significant role played by the African in the Muslim invasions of the Iberian peninsula. While it focuses mainly on Spain and Portugal, it also examines the races and roots of the original North African before the later ethnic mix of the blackamoors and tawny Moors in the medieval period. The study ranges from the Moor in the literature of Cervantes and Shakespeare to his profound influence upon Europe's university system and the diffusion via this system of the ancient and medieval sciences. The Moors are shown to affect not only European mathematics and map-making, agriculture and architecture, but their markets, their music and their machines. The ethnicity of the Moor is re-examined, as is his unique contribution, both as creator and conduit, to the first seminal phase of the industrial revolution.