Moorish Spain

A Short Journey into Moorish Spain

April 28, 2021

By Ani Karapetyan

By: Habeeb Salloum/Arab America Contributing Writer In the world today, if a man wants to travel back through history he would find no better place than Andalusia, a former Moorish land in southern Spain. In this part of the Iberian Peninsula known as al-Andalus during the centuries of Arab rule, there once flourished a civilization … Continued

Snatched from the Gates of Paradise

May 27, 2020

By Ani Karapetyan

By: Habeeb Salloum/Arab American Contributing Writer It was in the year 1000 A.D. and al-Mansour, the never-defeated Moorish leader of Arab Spain, had returned to Cordova from yet another victory over the Christians of the North. A man of steel, he had forged an army which was the best in both Europe and the Muslim … Continued

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