Andalusia When It Was… Spain’s Islamic Legacy: A Glimpse From A Muslim’s Travelogue When the Moors Ruled Spain Spain Prevents Teaching of Islam Quotes Regarding Muslims In Spain Treasures Of Andalusia The Alhambra Palace The Mosque Of Cordoba...
When was the Second Crusade? The Crusades: The Crusades were a series of wars in the Holy Lands between Christians and Muslims. The Christians, belonging to the Catholic Church, wanted to take the Holy Lands away from Muslim control. There were about eight crusades, taking place between 1096...
As part of the Channel 4, Hidden Civilisation season exploring Islam's rich and significant contribution to western art and culture, historian Bettany Hughes traces the story of the mysterious and misunderstood Moors, the Islamic society that ruled in Spain for 700 years, but whose legacy was vir...
The Ottoman Empire was one of the largest Muslim powers in history. It took much of the territory that once belonged to the Byzantine Empire, and once threatened much of Eastern Europe. Answer and Explanation: Learn more about this topic: ...
In 1982, Spain being a Democracy, a 18 years old personal friend was sent to do his military service in North Africa for a full year plus a couple of months. One of his duties was armed vigilance in the border with Morocco. The orders they had were simple. If they thought they heard...
What was Guantanamo Bay used for? Constructed in stages starting in 2002, the Guantánamo Bay detention camp (often called Gitmo, which is also a name for the naval base) was used to house Muslim militants and suspected terrorists captured by U.S. forces in Afghanistan, Iraq, and elsewhere ...
Christians in the eleventh century were not paranoid fanatics. Muslims really were gunning for them. While Muslims can be peaceful, Islam was born in war and grew the same way. From the time of Mohammed, the means of Muslim expansion was always the sword. Muslim thought divides the world in...
“red castle” in Arabic. The palace has this name because the outside of the building has red clay on it. The Alhambra is on t THE Alhambra is an old palace and fortress in Granada, of southern Spain. It used to be the home of the Muslim Moors, who were in charge of Spain ...
Spain. Japan. South Korea. United Kingdom. Turkey. Chile. Why was there a constitutional crisis in 1954 55? In the absence of a new constitution, the power of the government was more centralised and the political parties failed to accept democratic principles. A constitutional crisis was inevit...
Woodblock printing was invented around the year 220CE in China. Inventors decided carving out from wood and using them as stamps was much more efficient than writing. In the 5th century CE, Arab Muslims were also printing texts, mainly passages from the Qur'an which is the Muslim version of...