Prelude: The beginning of Islam and the end of antiquity -- Part I: Conquest, 700-820 -- An opening -- Trouble in paradise -- The falcon of the Quraysh -- A new emirate -- Part II: Transformation, 820 ...
Acknowledgments -- Style Note -- Note on Translated Essays -- Foreword / Salma Khadra Jayyusi -- History -- The Political History of al-Andalus (92/711-897/1492) (starting p. 3) / Mahmoud Makki -- ...
FacebookLikeShareTweetEmail Five centuries after the fall of Granada, Al-Andalus remains a symbol of both Muslim intellectual ...
A History of the Muslim World: From Its Origins to the Dawn of Modernity; By Michael A. Cook; Princeton University Press; 960 pp., $39.95 “The text,” Ted replies. “OK, that’s right. But they never ...
Mudéjar ceiling at the Museum of Jurassic Technology (MJT), 2024 (all photos courtesy MJT) “Hands down, it’s the largest project we’ve ever done at the museum by a lot,” David Wilson, the museum’s ...
Jewish life in the early Islamic world was apparently somewhat positive, especially as compared to Christendom. Jews were living in the Arab world since the Romans conquered Israel in 63 BCE when many ...