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Flight of the Blackbird - Saudi Aramco World Jul/Aug 2003

Driven from Baghdad by a jealous music teacher, a young virtuoso named Ziryab — "blackbird" — landed in Muslim Spain in 822, where he opened the first music school. Under the ruler's aegis, he brou...
  • eyeclaud published this 11 / 15 / 2009
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The Saracens of St. Tropez - Saudi Aramco World Sep/Oct 2009

The split of the Carolingian empire left the Cote d’Azur from Marseilles east to Italy leaderless, and for 85 years during the 9-10th centuries, Arab Muslims from what is now Spain controlled the r...
  • eyeclaud published this 11 / 14 / 2009
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Al-Andalus: The World of Jews, Christians and Muslims in Spain

The legacy of Al-Andalus, the name that the Arabs gave to the Iberian Peninsula, whose territory is now shared by the modern European countries of Spain and Portugal. For a few brief centuries thre...
  • guajataca published this 08 / 11 / 2009
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The Incomplete History- Andalus After 1492

A fascinating new book dealing with an aspect of Al Andalus that has not yet been dealth with in detail by Englsh speaking Muslims. It is a voluminous release and covers briefly the period of Musl...
  • osamai published this 01 / 25 / 2009
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