The term "Moor" generally refers to the Muslim inhabitants of the Maghreb (Northwest Africa) and their reign of al-Andalus (modern-day Spain and Portugal) from the early 8th century to the late ...

But in 929, Abd-al-Rahman III declared himself caliph of Córdoba in opposition to the Fatimids, who had risen to power in Egypt as the Umayyad Caliphate disintegrated.

Christian forces captured the Umayyad capital in 1236, but left its glorious house of worship largely untouched when converting it to a cathedral. HISTORY MAGAZINE Córdoba's stunning mosque ...

Al-Andalus, the lands of the Iberian Peninsula under Muslim rule, had broken away from the Caliphate shortly after the Abbasids overthrew the Umayyad dynasty, yonder in Damascus, back in 750.

If the details are sometimes sketchy, it's because the narrative has changed along the way but he is a well-cited figure placed in the Court of Cordoba under the Umayyad Caliphate between 822 and ...

Under the Umayyad dynasty, the caliphate of Al-Andalus stretched from Lisbon to Zaragoza, and centred on the Andalusian cities of Córdoba, Granada and Seville.

The mosque was indeed begun in the wake of a Muslim conquest—just not the conquest of the Christians. Rather, it was ordered built by the Umayyad emir Abd-ar-Ramman I, probably in part to ...

Under the Umayyad dynasty, the caliphate of Al-Andalus stretched from Lisbon to Zaragoza, and centred on the Andalusian cities of Córdoba, Granada and Seville.