Moorish Spain
by Richard Fletcher
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Recommended by 2 sources and appears in Books Recommended by Paul Graham, Most Recommended Books, and History.
Beginning in the year 711 and continuing for nearly a thousand years, the Islamic presence survived in Spain, at times flourishing, and at other times dwindling into warring fiefdoms. But the culture and science thereby brought to Spain, including longburied knowledge from Greece, largely forgotten during Europes Dark Ages, was to have an enduring...
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