al-Ándalus; Basque: al-Andalus; Berber: ⴰⵏⴷⴰⵍⵓⵙ, romanized: Andalus; Catalan: al-Àndalus; Galician: al-Andalus; Occitan: Al Andalús; Portuguese: al-Ândalus;...
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Slavery in al-Andalus was a practice throughout Al-Andalus and the Iberian Peninsula (present-day Spain and Portugal) between the 8th-century and the...
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November/December 1994. Al Andalus: Booking Archived 2019-09-21 at the Wayback Machine. Andalus.com. Retrieved on 20 October 2011. Al Andalus Ensemble offers...
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Abd al-Rahman I, was the founder and first emir of the Emirate of Córdoba, ruling from 756 to 788. He established the Umayyad dynasty in al-Andalus, which...
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Gharb al-Andalus (Arabic: غرب الأندلس, trans. gharb al-ʼandalus; "west of al-Andalus"), or just al-Gharb (Arabic: الغرب, trans. al-gharb; "the west"),...
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Al-Andalus, led by Yahya ibn Ghaniya, were by then confined to Granada. In 1150 or 1151 Abd al-Mu'min summoned the leaders and notables of Al-Andalus...
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Seville (redirect from Hims al-Andalus)
referred to for example in the encyclopedia of Yaqut al-Hamawi or in Abu al-Baqa ar-Rundi's Ritha' al-Andalus. The city is sometimes referred to as the "Pearl...
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much of eastern Al-Andalus. From the very early stages of his reign, Abd al-Rahman showed a firm resolve to quash the rebels of al-Andalus, consolidate and...
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Al-Andalus Mosque (Spanish: Mezquita de al-Ándalus) is a mosque in the neighbourhood of Arroyo del Cuarto city of Málaga, Andalusia, Spain. The mosque...
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Almoravid dynasty (redirect from Al Moravids)
It established an empire that stretched over the western Maghreb and Al-Andalus, starting in the 1050s and lasting until its fall to the Almohads in 1147...
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literature of al-Andalus, also known as Andalusi literature (Arabic: الأدب الأندلسي, al-adab al-andalusī), was produced in al-Andalus, or Islamic Iberia...
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History of Islam (section Al-Andalus)
to al-Andalus. Shortly thereafter, he set off with Bedr and a small group of followers for Europe. Abd al-Rahman landed at Almuñécar in al-Andalus, to...
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Rithā’ al-Andalus (Arabic: رثاء الأندلس, variously translated as "An Elegy to al-Andalus" or "Elegy for the fall of al-Andalus"), also known as Lament...
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Berber Revolt (section Coup in al-Andalus)
initially by Maysara al-Matghari. The revolt soon spread through the rest of the Maghreb (North Africa) and across the straits to al-Andalus. Although the Berbers...
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The Fitna of al-Andalus (Arabic: فتنة الأندلس, romanized: Fitnat al-Andalus) (1009–1031) was a civil war in the Caliphate of Córdoba. It began in the year...
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principalities in the western Maghreb, and several Taifa kingdoms in al-Andalus, and empires of the Almoravids and Almohads. Their Berber successors –...
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This article reviews the history of military architecture in al-Andalus, present-day Spain and Portugal under Islamic rule (8th to 15th centuries). The...
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co-existed for over seven centuries in the Iberian Peninsula during the era of Al-Andalus states. The degree to which the Christians and the Jews were tolerated...
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Moorish architecture (redirect from Architecture of Al-Andalus)
architecture which developed in the western Islamic world, including al-Andalus (on the Iberian peninsula) and what is now Morocco, Algeria, and Tunisia...
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second Umayyad Caliph of Córdoba in Al-Andalus, and son of Abd-al-Rahman III and Murjan. He ruled from 961 to 976. Al-Hakam II succeeded to the Caliphate...
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Taifa (redirect from Taifas in the Al-Andalus)
as al-Andalus, that emerged from the decline and fall of the Umayyad Caliphate of Córdoba between 1009 and 1031. They were a recurring feature of al-Andalus...
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8 August 1002), was a Muslim Arab military leader and statesman from Al-Andalus. As the chancellor of the Umayyad Caliphate of Córdoba and hajib (chamberlain)...
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List of former mosques in Spain (section List of mosques in Al-Andalus (with original buildings & ruins))
within the modern borders of Spain. Most of these mosques are from the Al-Andalus period. For a list of open, functioning mosques in Spain see list of mosques...
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Giralda (section Post-Al-Andalus)
Spain. It was built as the minaret for the Great Mosque of Seville in al-Andalus, during the reign of the Almohad dynasty, with a Renaissance-style belfry...
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Reconquista (redirect from Fall of al-Andalus)
Reconquista (Spanish and Portuguese for 'reconquest') or the reconquest of al-Andalus was a series of military and cultural campaigns that European Christian...
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by contemporary accounts of the events following Abd al-Rahman I's initial arrival in al-Andalus. The narrative of the church being transformed into a...
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Hammam (section Maghreb and al-Andalus)
hammams were historically found across the Middle East, North Africa, al-Andalus (Islamic Iberia, i.e. Spain and Portugal), Central Asia, the Indian subcontinent...
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The Kūra was one of the territorial demarcations into which al-Andalus, the ancient Islamic Iberian Peninsula, was divided during the Emirate and Caliphate...
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Muslim conquest of the Iberian Peninsula (category 8th century in al-Andalus)
of the Iberian Peninsula (Arabic: فَتْحُ الأَنْدَلُس, romanized: fataḥ al-andalus), also known as the Arab conquest of Spain, by the Umayyad Caliphate occurred...
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