Al-Andalus

Islamic Spain, known as Al-Andalus, was home to immigrants from three Abrahamic faiths, whose cultures interlaced.

"Cities of Light: The Rise and Fall of Islamic Spain" - PBS documentary 2007

Islamic Spain, known as Al-Andalus, was home to immigrants from three Abrahamic faiths, whose cultures interlaced.

Archive 2007-08-01 2007

Islamic rule over the region then known as Al-Andalus ended in 1492, when Granada, the last Muslim stronghold, capitulated to the Roman Catholic kings.

Indymedia Ireland 2010

Bibliographical Note: For an excellent popular introduction to Sepharad/Al-Andalus and its rich history and culture, Maria Rosa Menocal's The Ornament of the World: How Muslims, Jews, and Christians Created a Culture of Tolerance in Medieval Spain (Little, Brown, 2002) is a great place to begin your studies.

David Shasha: Understanding the Sephardi-Ashkenazi Split 2010

Looking back at the vast expanse of Jewish history, the Jews of the Middle East and Mediterranean world had undergone a process of acculturation that stretched from the earliest sojourn in the Babylonian Diaspora, the home of the great Talmudic academies, to the high-water mark of Sepharad/Al-Andalus: the "Golden Age" of Spanish civilization under the Arab 'Umayyad caliphate.

David Shasha: Understanding the Sephardi-Ashkenazi Split 2010

Bibliographical Note: For an excellent popular introduction to Sepharad/Al-Andalus and its rich history and culture, Maria Rosa Menocal's The Ornament of the World: How Muslims, Jews, and Christians Created a Culture of Tolerance in Medieval Spain (Little, Brown, 2002) is a great place to begin your studies.

Understanding the Sephardi-Ashkenazi Split David Shasha 2010

Looking back at the vast expanse of Jewish history, the Jews of the Middle East and Mediterranean world had undergone a process of acculturation that stretched from the earliest sojourn in the Babylonian Diaspora, the home of the great Talmudic academies, to the high-water mark of Sepharad/Al-Andalus: the "Golden Age" of Spanish civilization under the Arab 'Umayyad caliphate.

Understanding the Sephardi-Ashkenazi Split David Shasha 2010

Over the course of many centuries, Sepharad/Al-Andalus was a marker of Jewish creativity and cosmopolitanism afforded by Islam in contrast to the prison that was Christian Europe.

David Shasha: Collateral Damage: Jewish Fratricide and the Demonizing of Córdoba 2010

The land that the Arabs called "Al-Andalus" and that the Jews called "Sepharad" was often torn by war and contention between the three religious groups, but at the same time afforded us a vision of a cultural symbiosis that successfully fused monotheistic belief with the scientific and philosophical heritage of Greece and Rome.

David Shasha: Charlton Heston's 'El Cid': A Hero for Our Time 2010

The land that the Arabs called "Al-Andalus" and that the Jews called "Sepharad" was often torn by war and contention between the three religious groups, but at the same time afforded us a vision of a cultural symbiosis that successfully fused monotheistic belief with the scientific and philosophical heritage of Greece and Rome.

David Shasha: Charlton Heston's 'El Cid': A Hero for Our Time 2010