Thaks dhu. That would be good to get a accurate picture of history. Meanwhile
<!--QuoteBegin-"ramana"+-->QUOTE("ramana")<!--QuoteEBegin-->In the twenty year period before and after 9/11, a number of books have come out to examine the question of the Moors of Spain. Most o the works are apologies to the Islamists of Moorish Spain and imply that somehow had the Moors survived in Spain there would have been enlightenment, milk and honey all over Europe. The Moors are important for most of the European perceptions of Islam and the other world were drawn from their experience with the Moors. In fact Afrcian people were identified with color rather than any other association. The Spaniards and the Portugese got most of their words from them.
Here is a google book
The Golden Age of the Moors
We need to study them to get an idea for why things are the way they are.
On further googling to understand what & why happened I found two other google books
Muslim Prespective from and English Author Stanley Lane Poole:
The story of Moors in Spain
Christian or European Prespective by another English author Henry Edward Watts
Christian Recovery of Spain
Both books are ~ 5 MB pdfs . I sugest peole should download them and read them. One fonds a lot of similarities in the invasion of Spain and India. The second book gives an inkling of how Reconquista occured. This can be compared to what happened in South India and what didnt happen in North India and how long it took.
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<!--QuoteBegin-"ramana"+-->QUOTE("ramana")<!--QuoteEBegin-->In the twenty year period before and after 9/11, a number of books have come out to examine the question of the Moors of Spain. Most o the works are apologies to the Islamists of Moorish Spain and imply that somehow had the Moors survived in Spain there would have been enlightenment, milk and honey all over Europe. The Moors are important for most of the European perceptions of Islam and the other world were drawn from their experience with the Moors. In fact Afrcian people were identified with color rather than any other association. The Spaniards and the Portugese got most of their words from them.
Here is a google book
The Golden Age of the Moors
We need to study them to get an idea for why things are the way they are.
On further googling to understand what & why happened I found two other google books
Muslim Prespective from and English Author Stanley Lane Poole:
The story of Moors in Spain
Christian or European Prespective by another English author Henry Edward Watts
Christian Recovery of Spain
Both books are ~ 5 MB pdfs . I sugest peole should download them and read them. One fonds a lot of similarities in the invasion of Spain and India. The second book gives an inkling of how Reconquista occured. This can be compared to what happened in South India and what didnt happen in North India and how long it took.
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