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    and Jews 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...
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    a conduit for cultural and scientific exchange between the Islamic and Christian worlds. For much of its history, al-Andalus existed in conflict with...
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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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    Umayyad state of Córdoba (category 11th-century disestablishments in al-Andalus)
    Iberian Peninsula (known to Muslims as al-Andalus), the Balearic Islands, and parts of North Africa, with its capital in Córdoba (at the time Qurṭubah). From...
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    heritage. In 711, the Umayyad conquest of Hispania marked a major cultural and political shift, as Andalusia became a focal point of al-Andalus, the Muslim-controlled...
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    Mozarabs (category Christianity in al-Andalus)
    Christians of al-Andalus, or the territories of Iberia under Muslim rule from 711 to 1492. Following the Umayyad conquest of the Visigothic Kingdom in Hispania...
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    the al-Andalus slave trade in Western Europe. From the Prague slave trade of Pagan Slavs via France to slavery in al-Andalus in Spain, and via the al-Andalus...
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    ISBN 978-84-8409-700-6. Safran, Janina M. (2013). Defining Boundaries in al-Andalus: Muslims, Christians, and Jews in Islamic Iberia. Cornell University Press. p. 61....
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    Umayyad invasion of Gaul (category 8th century in al-Andalus)
    France) following their successful conquest of the Iberian Peninsula (Al-Andalus). In some sources, particularly those with a nationalist tone, it is referred...
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    The Reconquista (Spanish and Portuguese for 'reconquest') or the reconquest of al-Andalus was a series of military and cultural campaigns that European...
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    Emirate of Granada (category States and territories established in 1232)
    present in the Iberian Peninsula, which they called Al-Andalus, since 711. By the late 12th century, following the expansion of Christian kingdoms in the...
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    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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    did borrow from one another in Al-Andalus, benefiting especially by the blooming of philosophy and the medieval sciences in the Muslim Middle East, recent...
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  • impact. Spanish vocabulary has been in contact from an early date with Arabic, having developed during the Al-Andalus era in the Iberian Peninsula with around...
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    conquests, conquering Ifriqiya, Transoxiana, Sind, the Maghreb and Hispania (al-Andalus). At its greatest extent, the Umayyad Caliphate covered 11,100...
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    Jebala people (category Muslim communities in Africa)
    Tlemcen and Constantine) with Mediterranean ports, especially with those located in al-Andalus. As the most archaic group of Arabic dialects in the region...
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  • antiguos en al-Andalus. Fundación Ibn Tufayl de Estudios Árabes. pp. 128–9. ISBN 978-84-936751-8-9. Christys, Ann (2002). Christians in Al-Andalus, 711-1000...
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    incorporated into Al-Andalus. While the Emirate of Córdoba reinforced its influence upon the Mediterranean, Al-Andalus increased its interest in the city. The...
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    History of Seville (category Histories of cities in Spain)
    Visigothic Kingdom, Hispalis housed the royal court on some occasions. In al-Andalus (Muslim Spain) the city was first the seat of a kūra (Spanish: cora)...
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    Romans, and Visigoths. The current settlement became a major city of Al-Andalus in the 11th century during the Zirid Taifa of Granada. In the 13th century...
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    Abd al-Rahman I managed to escape to al-Andalus and declared it independent. The state founded by him is known as the Emirate of Cordoba. Al-Andalus was...
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    Caliphate (category Articles with text in Berber languages)
    dynasty, which had survived and come to rule over Al-Andalus, reclaimed the title of caliph in 929, lasting until it was overthrown in 1031. During the Umayyad...
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    establish independent in rule in al-Andalus (present-day Spain and Portugal) in 756, founding the Umayyad Emirate of Córdoba. In 756, al-Mansur had also sent over...
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    specifically lauded Al-Andalus, and thus, "writing about Islam was for Jews a way of indulging in a fantasy world, far from the persecution and pogroms of nineteenth-century...
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  • Economic ideology (category Cultural economics)
    like Al-Andalus and the Emirate of Sicily. The Islamic economic concepts taken and applied by the gunpowder empires and various Islamic kingdoms and sultanates...
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    Muqaddimah (redirect from Al-Muqadimmah)
    political history, in numerous biographical dictionaries—especially in Ahmed Muhammad al-Maqqari's Nafḥ al-ṭīb min ghuṣn al-Andalus al-raṭīb  [ar]—but the...
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    movement, supplanted the Almoravids, and would eventually bring under the movement's control al-Maghrib and al-Andalus. Almohad rule would be succeeded by...
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    Iberian and North African territories. The presence of a Muslim majority in North Africa and the Iberian Peninsula by the foundation of al-Andalus and other...
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    Sephardic Jews (category Jews and Judaism in Europe)
    rule in Al-Andalus following the Umayyad conquest, which ushered in a golden age. However, their fortunes declined with the Christian Reconquista. In 1492...
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    Islamic world had industrial steel watermills in operation, from Al-Andalus and North Africa to the Middle East and Central Asia. Weight-driven clock: Arabic...
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