For nearly eight centuries, under the Mohamedan rule, Spain set all Europe a shining example of a civilized and enlightened state. Her fertile provinces rendered doubly prolific, by the industrious engineering skill of the conquerors bore fruit a hundredfold, cities innumerable sprang up in the rich valleys in the Guadalquivir and the Guadiana whose names, and names only commemorate the vanished glories of their past.
Stanley Lane-Poole, The Moors in Spain: Introduction.
How African Muslims "Civilized Spain"
January 1492 marks the end of nearly 700 years of African Muslim rule over Spain, Portugal and Southern France.
Four hundred and eight years ago today King Phillip III of Spain signed an order, which was one of the earliest examples of ethnic cleansing. At the height of the Spanish inquisition...
Islam in Spain
By the time 'Abd al-Rahman reached Spain, the Arabs from North Africa were already entrenched on the Iberian Peninsula and had begun to write one of the most glorious chapters in Islamic history.
Music in Muslim Spain
It is widely thought that music is forbidden in Islam. Scholars cite hadith, or sayings of the Prophet Muhammad, that certain types of music distract from worship, and that music is a source of temptation that leads to committing other excesses and sins. Others cite hadith showing that the Prophet Muhammad did permit singing, ...
Science and Scholarship in Al-Andalus
For Europe and Western civilization the contributions of Islamic Spain were of inestimable value. When the Muslims entered southern Spain - which they called al-Andalus - barbarians from the north had overrun much of Europe and the classical civilization of Greece and Rome had gone into eclipse...
What can Andalusia teach us about living together?
The loss of Andalusia is like losing part of my body,” H.R.H. Prince Turki al-Faisal told me.I had asked him what the loss of Andalusia meant to him as an Arab. The son of King Faisal, widely celebrated in the Muslim world, Prince Turki heads The King Faisal Center for Research and Islamic Studies in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia’s...
A Beginner's Guide To Andalusi Calligraphy
You might have heard of al-Andalus, that 800 year period of Islamic Spain where the arts and sciences flourished beyond the wildest imaginations of the time, but have you ever wondered how all that knowledge was transmitted?
Andalusi script, said to be Europe's only indigenous way of writing the Holy Qur'an, is a style that is at once ...
The Rise and Fall of Islamic Spain - PBS Documentary
From the days of Charlemagne to Christopher Columbus, Islamic Spain represents one of the most productive intercultural relationships in Western history down to the present day...
Lessons from the Golden Era of Andalusia
Every civilization stamps its own mark on history - but the Islamic period of rule over the Iberian peninsula has many features which are not often widely known or appreciated. The Algerian academic Saadane Benbabaali has now retired from teaching at Paris University III. But partly because his ancestors came from what's now the southern Spanish region of Andalusia...
Alhamdulilah in Pink
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SET Of TWO IHRAM TOWELS with MONEY BELT . Towel Size about 44 x 90 inches. Belt suitable for waist size 33 to 43 inches
Ihram for Men - Soft and Thick Towels
SHAHADAH. Framed Faux Canvas Print. Overall Size 19 x 8 inches
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