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A History of Islamic Spain

Book by W. Montgomery Watt; Edinburgh University Press, 1965

Subjects:

Spain--History--711-1516

Collections: Religious Studies, History, Entire Library

...under three heads. Firstly, Islamic Spain must be looked at in itself...are moving? Or is this image of Islamic Spain largely dependent on the contrast...entered Europe? Secondly, Islamic Spain must be looked on as a part of...
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Moorish Spain: Cordoba, Seville, Granada

Book by Enrique Sordo, Wim Swaan; Elek Books, 1963

Subjects:

Arabs--Spain, Art, Islamic

Collections: Religious Studies, History, Entire Library

THE RED PALACE OF THE NASRID SULTANS IN THE WHOLE of Spain there is probably no hill or mountain so steeped in history...ecstatic height, Ibn Zamrak, one of the greatest poets of Islamic Spain, composed these spacious lines: "From Sabikas esplanade...
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Islamic Philosophy and Theology: An Extended Survey

Book by W. Montgomery Watt; Edinburgh University Press, 1985

Subjects:

Islam--Doctrines--History, Philosophy, Islamic

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, Entire Library

...convenient term to designate Islamic Spain and North Africa, which are...from 1090 included nearly all Islamic Spain, which had asked the Almoravids...Contributions were made in Spain to the advancement of Islamic humanistic and religious studies...
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History of the Islamic Peoples: With a Review of Events, 1939-1947

Book by Carl Brockelmann, Moshe Perlmann, Joel Carmichael; G. P. Putnams Sons, 1947

Subjects:

Islamic Countries--History

Collections: Religious Studies, History, Entire Library

...emirate founded by Abd-ar-Rahman in Spain , 181 . Struggle with the Christians in northern Spain , 182 . Disturbances caused by Christian...Culture, espe cially literature, in Islamic Spain , 187 . Amirids of Cordova , 193 . Petty...
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The Islamic World: From Classical to Modern Times

Book by C. E. Bosworth, Charles Issawi, Roger Savory, A. L. Udovitch; Darwin Press, 1989

Subjects:

Civilization, Islamic, Lewis, Bernard--Bibliography, Middle East

Collections: History, Entire Library

...374-80. For court Jews in Islamic Spain, see Joseph Weiss, " Tarbut h...Eliyahu Ashtor , The Jews of Moslem Spain Philadelphia, 1973-84 , 3 vols...Stillman , "Aspects of Jewish Life in Islamic Spain", in Aspects of Jewih Culture...

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Medieval Islamic Spain (Al-andalus) as a Civilizational Bridge between Later Antiquity and Early Modernity

Journal article by Roscoe C. Hinkle; Comparative Civilizations Review, 2009

Collections: History, Entire Library

Medieval Islamic Spain (Al-andalus) as a Civilizational Bridge between Later Antiquity...established. All of these are to be found exemplified in Muslim Spain. Pre-Islamic Spain For several centuries before the Islamic conquest, the Iberian...
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La Convivencia: the Spirit of Co-existence in Islam

Journal article by Farhan Mujahid Chak; Islamic Studies, Vol. 48, 2009

Subjects:

Christian Islamic relations, Islam, Multiculturalism & pluralism, Muslims, Spirituality

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...present-day Portugal, Spain and Sicily - in which...and Judeo- Christo-Islamic relationship is becoming...itself, arose out of Islamic Spain, Portugal and Sicily...to the entirety of the Islamic message will lead to...
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Islamic Art at the V&a

Journal article by Richard Tillinghast; The Hudson Review, Vol. 60, 2007

Subjects:

Art criticism, Art exhibits, Art galleries & museums, Islamic culture, Jameel Gallery of Islamic Art, London England

Collections: Religious Studies, Literature, Entire Library

...and medieval Byzantium. In turn Islamic architecture provided models for...which began by imitating the Islamic styles traders and crusaders would have seen in Moorish Spain and in the Holy Land. Islamic art is all about pattern. One...
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God's Rule: Government and Islam, Six Centuries of Medieval Islamic Political Thought

Journal article by Zouhair Ghazzal; The Historian, Vol. 67, 2005

Subjects:

Books--Book reviews, God's Rule: Government and Islam, Six Centuries of Medieval Islamic Political Thought (Book)--Book reviews

Collections: Religious Studies, History, Entire Library

...Six Centuries of Medieval Islamic Political Thought. By Patricia...39.50.) In her study of Islamic political systems of thought...in Egypt and the Umayyads in Spain, both of which declared their...autonomous caliphates. The original Islamic political thought of its first...
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Hans Frei's Typology of Christian Theology: A Comparative Look at the Islamic Tradition

Journal article by Yasir S. Ibrahim; Journal of Ecumenical Studies, Vol. 44, 2009

Subjects:

Christian communities--Management, Christian theology--Management, Islamic theology--Management, Qur'an (Sacred work)--Criticism and interpretation, Typology (Theology)--Management

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...students to learn and understand Islamic theology by using an extraquranic...scholastic presentation of Islamic theology (Muhammad Abduh...lived in Andalusia (Muslim Spain) and North Africa. He was a member of the Zahiri school of Islamic law, a non-established Sunni...

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Tales of the Alhambra: The Lost Islamic World of Southern Spain - and Its Modern Echoes

Magazine article by Cullen Murphy; The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 288, September 2001

Subjects:

Spain--Description and travel

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...I had become interested in Islamic Spain in the course of research for...now Spain. In its golden age Islamic Spain was among the most civilized places...wider excursion through formerly Islamic Spain. Cordoba, Spains other great...
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Timbuktu to Jackson

Magazine article by Amad Shakur; Islamic Horizons, Vol. 36, September 2007

Subjects:

Historic documents, International Museum of Muslim Cultures-Jackson MS, Islamic culture, Museum exhibits, Muslim Americans

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...and celebrating the African-Islamic historical continuum, since November...America. Its first exhibit, "Islamic Moorish Spain," captured the rich history...and Muslims lived in peace under Islamic law. This kingdom forged collaborations...
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Secularism and Enlightenment in Islamic Countries

Magazine article by Paul Kurtz; Free Inquiry, Vol. 15, Spring 1995

Subjects:

Islamic countries--Social aspects, Secularism--Conferences, meetings, seminars, etc.

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, Entire Library

...was born in Cordoba, Spain, in 1126 and died in...philosophical ferment in Spain, then a pluralistic...religious traditions - Islamic, Christian, and Judaic...will come from growing Islamic minorities in Western...in Germany, Italy, Spain, Scandinavia, and elsewhere...
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Muhammad and the Birth of a New Civilization

Magazine article by Ali A. Mazrui; Islamic Horizons, Vol. 37, September 2008

Subjects:

Civilization, Globalization, God, Islamic culture, Muslims

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...al-Hamra in Muslim Spain, the towering voices...that the fountain of Islamic civilization was intended...Fortunately, the evolution of Islamic civilization was not...luxury. Just as Muslim Spain up to the fifteenth century...fountain of creative Islamic cultural synthesis...
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On the Trail of a Taboo: Female Circumcision in the Islamic World

Magazine article by Charles Foster; Contemporary Review, Vol. 264, May 1994

Subjects:

Circumcision--Moral and ethical aspects, Islamic religious practice--Demographic aspects, Marriage customs and rites, Islamic--Moral and ethical aspects, Purity, Ritual--Social aspects, Sex customs--Moral and ethical aspects, Taboo--Research, Women, Muslim--Social aspects

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...It is impossible to say how Islamic the practice is. Bullfighting...because it happens in Catholic Spain, and the mere occurrence of...predominant view throughout the Islamic world. Steps to displace the...orchestrated by corrupt anti-Islamic western interests. The effect...

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Hybrid Artistry of Islamic Spain

Newspaper article; The Washington Times, May 15, 2004

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

Hybrid Artistry of Islamic Spain. Byline: Joanna Shaw-Eagle...Kings: The Art and Influence of Islamic Spain," at the Hispanic Society of...intellectual accomplishments of Islamic Spain ("al-Andalus") culminating...
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So Much Moor to Andalucia; Daisy Goodwin Is Entranced by the Indelible Mark Left on This Famous Corner of Spain by 500 Years of Islamic Rule

Newspaper article; The Mail on Sunday (London, England), September 5, 2004

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...Famous Corner of Spain by 500 Years of Islamic Rule. Byline...that centuries of Islamic rule had had on...we associate with Spain - flamenco, siestas...that I was not in Spain but North Africa...more time under Islamic rule than any other...
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Bush Hits 'Islamic Radicals'; Defends War on Terror, Reveals Foiled Attacks

Newspaper article; The Washington Times, October 7, 2005

Subjects:

Islamic militants, Terrorism

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...regularly substitute the term "Islamic radicalism" for terrorism...operations from which to expand Islamic radicalism. "The militants...region and establish a radical Islamic empire that spans from Spain to Indonesia," he said...
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Islamic Bank Reduces Losses; BANKING in Association with Lloydstsb.Com/corporatemarkets

Newspaper article; The Birmingham Post (England), March 18, 2009

Subjects:

Banks (Finance), Islamic banking, Muslim organizations, United Kingdom. Bank of England

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...cent to pounds 158 million. Islamic Bank of Britain commercial...a good news story that the Islamic Bank of Britain came into the...We have even had expats from Spain ringing us up about this...assess new and Customers at the Islamic Bank of Britain have increased...
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Shariah Is Incompatible with Liberty; Many Americans Still Don't See the Threat of Islamic Law

Newspaper article; The Washington Times (Washington, DC), August 11, 2010

Subjects:

Americans--Laws, regulations and rules, Islamic law--Laws, regulations and rules

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...Still Dont See the Threat of Islamic Law. Byline: Frank J. Gaffney...the U.S. Constitution with Islamic Shariah law. Yet the Times...of the Moorish conquerors of Spain and the site where they triumphally...were incubators for homegrown Islamic radicals. The mayor has a...

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Islamic Art and Architecture

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...the Umayyads escaped to Spain and refounded his dynasty...times. The culture of Islamic Spain reached its apogee in...The Mude jarstyle of Spain, employed throughout...high period of Egypto-Islamic art with the building...
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Spain

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...Christian converts remained in Spain and, as members of the educated...Jewish-Moorish legacy to Spain and to Western Europe is immense...Moorish architecture (see Islamic art and architecture ) has left a deep imprint on Spain; its most famous example...
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Interior Decoration

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...extensively copied in later times. In Europe during the early medieval period few notable interiors were created except in Islamic Spain and in the Byzantine Empire. Simple movable and hanging objects were the chief furnishings of castles. In the late...
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Arcade

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...Renaissance monasteries; they were similarly used in the courts of houses in Italy and Spain and in the courtyards of Islamic mosques. The Romanesque structures of Spain, Sicily, and S Italy made frequent use of arcades composed of interlacing arches...
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Physics

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...papermaking, gunpowder) and the Hindus (the place-value decimal number system with a zero), and westward as far as Spain, where Islamic culture flourished in Cordoba, Toledo, and other cities. Little specific advance was made in physics during...

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