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It's a model for interfaith ties, and a warning about religious division.
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 ...
1492 is a momentous date in world history, ... The Moors were Muslims who invaded Spain and part of France in 711 AD, in the very early days of Islam.
Re "Islam's Claim on Spain," Jan. 18: The article says "seven centuries of Moorish rule ... ended when Granada fell to Christian monarchs." ...
Spain's Muslim population has grown to around two million in recent decades due to migration, ... That the Islamic history of Madrid remains so little known to this day is down to two key reasons.
When history is taught in the West, ... Muslim Spain not only collected and perpetuated the intellectual advances of Ancient Egypt, Greece and Roman civilisation, ...
The Myth of the Andalusian Paradise. Muslims, Christians and Jews under Islamic Rule in Medieval Spain. By Dario Fernandez-Morera. ISI Books, 2016. 336 pages, $29.95 ...
A chronology of key events in the history of Spain, from 1936 to the present. ... ending nearly 800 years of Muslim rule in the south and founding modern Spain as a united state.
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.