Absolutely! I expressed myself wrongly. I was trying to explain that muslims in that era introduced new inventions and views that were still unknown for christians in those regions.
Sometimes my English fails me.
No more than it does me and him!
Apart from introducing most of the advanced practices in the arts and sciences the ‘moors’ grew the majority of the food. According to Tremlett, after a lot of huffing and puffing, the ‘expulsion’ was not unlike...
@SabsP, no criticism was intended.
In Southern Italy this spring I spent time looking at the astonishing reminders of the Phoenician, Greek, and Roman colonisers of those lands. All now promoted and flourished as yet another attraction for the...
I know "Ornament of the World" that is in Amazon. Al Andalus was very important also for Jewish culture before the almoravide and almohade invasions with studious of Tora and Talmud like Maimonides, Jehuda Halevi and Ben Ezra very important...
Something to keep in mind: some might say that "occupation" of the Iberian peninsula by Arabs is no more accurate than "occupation" by Christians, Jews, or Visigoths, Sueri, Romans, or Iberians...Parts of the Iberian peninsula were inhabited, and...
IBERIA, written in the 1960's by James Michener. It is about the history of Iberia, but has some really interesting alternative info regarding the Muslim arrival, presence and departure.
Someone on this forum recommended Michener’s IBERIA a while back. I am about halfway through its 800+ pages and really enjoying the author’s style of writing. It’s kind of a deep dive into Spanish culture, one region at a time. Not specifically...
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