THE GOLDEN CENTURIES OF AL-ANDALUS

For a good part of 700 years, Arabs, Berbers and Christians lived in peace and perfect coexistence in Al-Andalus. They were golden centuries for the Muslims who built architectural treasures such as the Alhambra of Garnata and the Karouan mosque. The Arabs led the world in science, astronomy, surgery, mathematics, art and literature.

But there was also a fitna that began in 1009 with a coup d'état and a popular uprising in Córdoba that led to the murder of Abderramán Sanchuelo, son of Almanzor, the deposition of the caliph Hisham II and the rise to power of Muhammad ibn Hisham ibn Abd al. -Jabbar, great-grandson of Abd al-Rahman III. Divided the entire Andalusian territory into a series of taifa kingdoms, it is considered that the fitna came to an end with the definitive abolition of the Caliphate in 1031.

Who doesn't remember scientists? Abu al-Abbas al-Nabati; Avempace; Abu Salt of Denia; Abū'l-Jayr al-Išbīlī; Abulcasis; Ahmad ibn Muhammad abu Jafar al-Gafiqi; Al-Mutamán and Al-Arbuli..

We must remember Almanzor, who reformed the administration and the army, concentrating political power.

And the long list of philosophers: Abu al-Abbas al-Mursi; Avempace; Abu Muhammad Abd Allah ibn Isa al-Saybani; Ibn Said al-Maghribi; Al-Haddad; Al-Kattani; Al-Ruayni; Alpetragio; bn Arabi and the great Averroes.

Nor will we forget: Ibn Fathun; Abbas Ibn Firnas; Ibn Gabirol; Yehudah Halevi; Ibn Hazm and Ibn al-Khatib. And among the theologians we will mention: Nasr Hamid Abu Zayd; Israr Ahmed; Rage to Adawiyya; Muhammad Nasiruddin al-Albani; Mohamed Said Ramadan Al-Bouti; Abdullah Yusuf Azzam

ARABINFOCUS wanted to remember these glorious pages of the Arab presence in Al-Andalus. We must never forget it.


picture: The mosque of Cordoba (Kairouan)


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