About this title: This book examines the debt owed by Europe to the Moors for its Renaissance, and the significant role played by the Africans in the Muslim invasions of the Iberian peninsula. While the authors focus mainly on Spain and Portugal, they also examine the races and roots of the original North Africans before the later ethnic mix of the blackamoors and tawny Moors in the medieval period. The study ranges from characterizations of the Moors in the literature of Cervantes and Shakespeare to their profound influence upon the development of Europe's university system, and the diffusion through this ...
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Description: Good. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Description: Fair. 1560005815 Textbook Student edition. CD NOT INCLUDED. Moderate dirt, wear, wrinkling, or creasing on cover and spine. Cover has used book stickers or residue. Good binding. NO apparent loose pages. NO apparent missing pages. May have unnoticed missing pages, as this is a USED book and pages get lost easily. Moderate wrinkling from liquid damage. Does not affect the text. Light writing and highlighting. Marker on cover or bottom edge of book. aj. read more
Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Transaction Publishers
Date Published: 1991
ISBN-13:9781560005810ISBN:1560005815
Description: New. No DJ Issued. New. No dust jacket as issued. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 492 p. Journal of African Civilizations, 11. Audience: General/trade. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Transaction Pub
Date Published: 1991
ISBN-13:9781560005810ISBN:1560005815
Description: New. This book examines the debt owed by Europe to the Moors for its Renaissance, and the significant role played by the Africans in the Muslim invasions of the Iberian peninsula. While the authors focus mainly on Spain and Portugal, they also examine the... read more
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"Well written and well researched! Be prepared to be challenged. It shatters much of the eurocentric mythology that is still taught to most Americans as 'history'. Upon reading The Golden Age of the Moor, you quickly begins to sense the crumbling of ahistorical 19th century worldview of European Hegemony which relies on the idea of continential and cultural isolationism between Africa, Europe and Asia, and cross culturatl exchange was limited to "civilization" flowing from Europe to Africa and the East.
The Golden Age of the Moor is a must read for those interested in Medival Europe and the future Global events that would usher in the Colonalism, Renaissance and the Rise of Capitalism. I have studied in North Africa and travelled as well Europe, I can say that the Moor is no stranger nor is s/he a fictional character to Europeans. In modern Morrocco the cultural distinction between Arab and Tuareg is not raced based--the skin complexion of BOTH ethnic groups are blue-black, fair-skinned and anything in-between. Their spiritual practices have roots include a FULL spectrum of Jewish, Christian, Islamic, Greco-Roman and Ancient Indigenous African. So be mindful of anyone, even while famous historians, who would suggest Arab, Muslim or Moor means ONLY fair-skinned bedouins. It would be COMPLETELY false and cultural bias; their assertions do not withstand the cultural reality or the human experience within Europe, Asia or Africa that are can be found in PRIMARY sources."
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