Today is the anniversary of the fall of Moorish Spain. Was it really such a wonderful place?
"On 2 January 1492, a 40-year-old Italian sailor stood amid the fluttering banners outside the fabled walls of Granada, and watched as Muhammad XII handed the city's keys over to King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella of Spain.
On Muhammad's ignominious ride south, as he looked back from a mountain peak now known as el ultimo suspiro del moro (the moor's last sigh), he wept for the 781-year old Islamic state he had lost forever.
Al-Andalus was no Muslim outpost. The Spanish Islamic society had been a quintessential part of the European continent for almost 800 years. In an English context, it was there from the time of the Venerable Bede and King Alfred, all the way through to William the Conqueror, the great medieval kings, the universities and gothic cathedrals, the guilds and ships, printed books, and finally up to Tudor England…"
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