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This 5 page paper reviews the lecture by Maria Rosa Menocal and points out the many positive changes that came to medieval Spain with Muslim interaction with Christians and Jews. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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listed below. Citation styles constantly change, and these examples may not contain the most recent updates. Muslims Christians and Jews at Al Andalus Research
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The Iberian Peninsula, that region of the world we now call Spain and Portugal, fell under Islamic rule in 711 AD. While Islamic rule was only brief in certain
sections of the peninsula, it lasted almost eight-hundred years around the city we now call Granada (Menocal, 2000). Granada became the center of an area where Islam purified itself
and had a phenomenally positive impact on the Jews and Christians that lived alongside them in cooperative cultural diversity in a region where there truly was religious tolerance.
Over time there was a succession of different cities as the center of this region. Castile was one of those cities but there were
several more (Menocal, 2000). In that earlier time this central region of Islamic rule was known by various other names. The Hebrews called it ha-Sefarad but in Arabic
it was known as al-Andalus (Menocal, 2000). Al-Andalus, as Menocal (2000) prefers to call it, was characterized by many cultures and
many religions (Menocal, 2000). It was also characterized by something that we have far too little of today. That something, Menocal (2000) insists, was religious tolerance. The
medieval culture of Al-Andalus was also characterized by wondrous art and architecture (Menocal, 2000). Menocal (2000), in fact, credits it with much more than that. She contends
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