In 1236, Córdoba - the once-glorious capital of Muslim Spain - fell to the forces of King Fernando III of León-Castile. This ...

EARLIEST oral traditions suggest that Maynila was founded as a Muslim principality as early as the 1250s. Rajah Sulayman was ...

Like many things in Spain, it started as a Muslim Medieval City and became a Christian court in 1492. This became the last Moorish stronghold in the Iberian Peninsula.

Córdoba was once the capital of the Umayyad dynasty in Spain. At Mosque-Cathedral of Córdoba, which was built in the late ...

Discover the dramatic history of al-Andalus, from its rapid rise to its eventual fall. Show more In 711 an Arab and Berber army crossed the Strait of Gibraltar and invaded the Iberian Peninsula.

As recognised by many objective historians, the Jews, in particular, enjoyed under Muslim rule in Spain a ‘golden age’ unprecedented and unparalleled. In Cordoba, circa 910, the enlightened ...

Ottoman imperium eventually ended in ignominy, with defeat in World War I and the Armenian Genocide – an appalling ...

Hall of the Two Sisters of the Alhambra in Granada, Spain, 2024. Based on his MacArthur Foundation award-winning fusion of the technical and creative, Wilson was approached by the Getty Foundation ...

Spain: A History. Oxford University Press, USA, $45 (336pp) ISBN 978-0-19-820619-4. Potent yet palatable, this history of Spain is remarkably seamless--especially considering that it traces the ...

For a detailed description of this object, see Sharon Gibbs with George Saliba, Planispheric Astrolabes from the National Museum of American History, Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, ...