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    Al-Andalus

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    Arabic Lit 1121 Al-Andalus Al-Andalus was referred to as the areas of the Iberian Peninsula which were occupied by the Moors between 711-1492 AD. The Iberian Peninsula is the south western most part of Europe including Spain‚ Portugal‚ and France. The Moors were Muslim people of Arab descent who invaded or settled Al-Andalus from Northern Africa. Before the Moors came to the Iberian Peninsula‚ Spain was ruled under the Visigoths. Their kingdom quickly fell apart when the Moors

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    Architecture in particular is still very prominent from earlier civilizations such as the case in Al-Andalus. The most important building in Islamic Spain‚ like other centers of Muslim civilizations is the mosque‚ house of worship. The inside of a mosque is empty‚ without seats or altars‚ as the empty space is a surface used for expression of form. All mosques are built to model the Prophet’s mosque in Madinat al Nabi in present day Saudi Arabia. The Prophet’s mosque was a simple rectangular building with

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    The Spanish Reconquista

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    they would decimate the male population including infants and would take the widows and daughters as concubines. Once General Ziyad‚ his soldiers and other Moor ’s who continued to arrive got settled in this new land they created the territory of Al-Andalus. As with many lasting invasions the Moors had an incredible influence

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    ruling over the Spanish peninsula. The Spanish Catholic Kings conquered back Granada in 1492‚ finishing with the Muslim control of Iberia. This long period of Muslim domination left a strong influence over the spanish culture and language. This because hundreds of thousands of Muslims decided to stay Iberia and many of them converted to Christianity‚ but kept their traditions and they kept using their language (Arabic). When the Muslims settled in Iberia‚ they called these lands Al-Andalus. And they quickly

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    Al-Andalus Women

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    The Gentle Gender of AlAndalus Women made important achievements that helped Muslim Spain‚ referred to as Al-Andalus‚ flourish. Some will disagree with my statement‚ however according to my knowledge of this topic; Muslim women of Al- Andalus achieved many effects that other women from different religions have not. They had equal rights‚ just as men did; they had the freedom that people have not admitted they had. They helped society in giving Muslim women a higher level of status. These

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    Continuities In Spain

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    called the Moors conquered the southern part of the peninsula of modern day Spain. The invasion of the peninsula resulted from a help call from one group of visigoths‚ the Witizans. The place where the Muslim groups established their region is called al-Andalus‚ now day the region of Andalucía. One important place on this region was called the Caliphate of Córdoba where different cultural advances occurred. A cultural combination between the Hispano-Roman and Moorish happened due to it’s location. The

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    history begins with its initial inception and assembly in the late eighth-early ninth century‚ continuing into its expansions of the tenth century‚ culminating in its unexpected welding of ideology in the sixteenth century. “As the premier monument of al-Andalus‚ the Cordoba mosque embodies the history of the Iberian peninsula from its Islamic takeover in 711 through successive stages of Umayyad and post-Umayyad dominion and beyond. Following the fall of Cordoba in 1236‚ the mosque was preserved as the

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    Islamic Art

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    Art‚ in its simplest definition‚ is the creation of images or objects. Islamic art has throughout history been mainly abstract and floral‚ portraying geometric shapes or Arabesque and calligraphic designs because of the strict injunctions against the depiction of living things. Islamic Art as a whole is comprised of visual arts produced 7th century onwards. This term not only describes art made in the service of Islam or by Muslim artists‚ but also secular art originating from those lands which

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    World examines the world of medieval Spain or al-Andalus in which Judaic‚ Islamic‚ and Christian cultural and religious elements coexistence in a “lost” golden age: Menocal writes to shed light on this time period that models tolerance and to attempt to paint a portrait of life in Medieval Spain that can inspire future generations. Whereas tradition histories of Arabic people follow the Abbasid dynasty‚ Menocal choses to follow the Umayyad prince to al-Andalus examining the seven century presence of Islam

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    The Christians of Al-Andalus were far behind their Muslim rulers in terms of education and high culture‚ so they subsequently became attracted to Islamic intellectualism and language‚ and their integration into Andalusian culture caused them to have profound influence on all its inhabitants. The Christians in Al-Andalus consisted mainly of the Visigoths‚ Hispano-Romans and the native tribes of the Iberian Peninsula. The Christian population was pre-dominantly catholic‚ and under the Visigoth rule

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