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    Al-Andalus (Arabic: الأَنْدَلُس, romanized: al-ʾAndalus) was the Muslim-ruled area of the Iberian Peninsula. The name refers to the different Muslim states...
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    Umayyad state of Córdoba (category 11th-century disestablishments in al-Andalus)
    dynasty of Al-Andalus, such as Ahmad al-Razi's History of the Rulers of al-Andalus (Arabic: أخبار ملوك الأندلس, romanized: Akhbār mulūk al-Andalus). These...
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    Reconquista (Spanish and Portuguese for 'reconquest') or the fall of al-Andalus was a series of military and cultural campaigns that European Christian...
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  • in al-Andalus, active during the reign of Al-Hakam II. His full name is Abu 'l-Qāsim Maslama ibn Aḥmad al-Faraḍī al-Ḥāsib al-Maj̲rīṭī al-Qurṭubī al-Andalusī...
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    Almohad Caliphate (redirect from Al Mohads)
    century. At its height, it controlled much of the Iberian Peninsula (Al-Andalus) and North Africa (the Maghreb). The Almohad movement was founded by Ibn...
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    Islamic architecture that developed in the western Islamic world, including al-Andalus (the Iberian Peninsula) and what is now Morocco, Algeria, and Tunisia...
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    Seville (redirect from Hims al-Andalus)
    referred to for example in the encyclopedia of Yaqut al-Hamawi or in Abu al-Baqa ar-Rundi's Ritha' al-Andalus. The city is sometimes referred to as the "Pearl...
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    Mozarabs (category History of al-Andalus)
    or more precisely Andalusi Christians,: 166  were the Christians of al-Andalus, or the territories of Iberia under Muslim rule from 711 to 1492. Following...
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    of al-Andalus under Umayyad rule. Construction began in 936–940 and continued in multiple phases throughout his reign and the reign of his son, Al-Hakam...
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    dynasty and the Masmuda Almohad dynasty, Morocco dominated the Maghreb, al-Andalus in Iberia, and the western Mediterranean region. From the 13th century...
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    Taifa of Granada (category 11th-century establishments in al-Andalus)
    Gharnata) or Zirid Kingdom of Granada was a Muslim kingdom that was formed in al-Andalus (in present-day Spain) in 1013 following the deposition of Umayyad Caliph...
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    construction to Arabic qanat, and may therefore trace its lineage to Al-Andalus or North Africa. It is also comparable to hydraulic engineering works...
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    Arabic word Al-Andalus (الأندلس), which in turn may be derived from the Vandals, the Goths or pre-Roman Iberian tribes. The toponym al-Andalus is first attested...
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  • Pennsylvania ScholarlyCommons. La Vanguardia, 12-Nov-2006. Los últimos de Al Andalus. En la sierra del Segura se mantiene el recuerdo de descendientes de moriscos...
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    Islamic art and architecture; particularly in the Moorish architecture of al-Andalus (Iberian Peninsula) and North Africa and in Mughal architecture of the...
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    hammams were historically found across the Middle East, North Africa, al-Andalus (Islamic Iberia, i.e. Spain and Portugal), Central Asia, the Indian subcontinent...
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    Madrid, 25-26.04.2019; Al-Andalus-Magreb, Vol. 26, Num. 1, Universidad de Cádiz. Vignet-Zunz, J. (2017), « Jbala : Identités et frontières » La région...
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    Isma'ilis. According to Louis Massignon, the Arab scholar ibn Sab'in of al-Andalus asserted that the Encyclopedia has a Sunni sufi orientation. According...
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    "En los márgenes de la ley: el consumo de alcohol en al Andalus" (PDF). In Puente, Cristina de la (ed.). Estudios onomástico-biográficos de al Andalus...
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    commentary by Kamāl al-Dīn al-Fārisī, the Tanqīḥ al-Manāẓir li-dhawī l-abṣār wa l-baṣā'ir. In al-Andalus, it was used by the eleventh-century prince of...
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    stone-working techniques; and through anatomical reconstructions. James Frazer in The Golden Bough proposed similarities between the function of science and that...
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    the earliest surviving example of cuerda seca tilework (a technique originating in al-Andalus) being used in an architectural context.: 329–333  Above...
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    Islamic world contributions to Medieval Europe (category History of al-Andalus)
    scene, innovating and supplying information and ideas to Europe, via Al-Andalus, Sicily and the Crusader kingdoms in the Levant. These included Latin...
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    which characterized both the Maghreb (Morocco, Algeria, and Tunisia) and al-Andalus (Muslim Spain and Portugal). It blended influences from Amazigh (Berber)...
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  • Christian influences on the Islamic world (category Christianity in al-Andalus)
    antiguos en al-Andalus. Fundación Ibn Tufayl de Estudios Árabes. pp. 128–9. ISBN 978-84-936751-8-9. Christys, Ann (2002). Christians in Al-Andalus, 711-1000...
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    introduced water management techniques to Elche, but the 10th c. Islamic Caliphate of Córdoba and later rulers of Al-Andalus planted palm groves and garden-estates...
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    Hadith (redirect from Ilm al-Hadith)
    elaborate tradition of hadith sciences was devised to authenticate hadith known as ilm al jarh or ilm al dirayah Hadith science use a number of methods of...
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    decorative motifs derived from those that had been brought to or developed in Al-Andalus. Towards the end of the 15th century, and before influencing with its...
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  • was developed in ancient India and spread to the later Islamic world to Al-Andalus where it was adopted (without the zero) by the French monk Gerbert of...
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    ISBN 978-0-19-285434-6. Riosalido, Jesús (1997). "Los vikingos en al-Andalus" (PDF). Al-Andalus Magreb. 5: 335–344. Archived from the original (PDF) on 18...
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