A chronology of key events: 1492 - The Christian Kingdoms of Castile and Aragon conquer the Emirate of Granada, ending nearly 800 years of Muslim rule in the south and founding modern Spain as a ...

This dark period of history lasted for more than 300 years. Our world has much to learn from Muslim Spain. Civilisation flourishes in an atmosphere of tolerance and acceptance of others and ...

in which the play of light and shadow is reduced to a game of inches — considering the history of Islam in Spain. The interior of the Mezquita in Cordoba, Spain, built as a mosque in the eighth ...

Spain was, and has always been ... and left”, either through their indolence or active attempts to conceal Islamic history. In reality, the legacy of Islam, and Moriscos themselves, never ...

At the height of the Spanish inquisition, King Phillip III ordered the expulsion of 300,000 Muslim Moriscos, which initiated one of the most brutal and tragic episodes in the history of Spain.

Sometimes the dramatic history of the barbaric expulsion of Jews from Spain and the Spanish Inquisition’s persecution of Jews and Muslims draws away attention from the centuries of close ...