After crossing from North Africa in the early seven-hundreds, Muslims ruled in southern Spain for almost eight centuries, interacting with the populations they found there. VOA's Zlatica Hoke ...

The coexistence and cooperation of al-Andalus seemed to be at an end. Today, Muslims make up less than 0.5% of a population of nearly 11 million. For centuries, Portugal’s Islamic heritage was ...

"I wanted to document how architecture can serve as a dialogue between civilizations. My goal was not just to capture ...

As Noorani writes in his paper, The Lost Garden of al-Andalus: Islamic Spain and the Poetic Inversion of Colonialism, this memory travelled far beyond the Arab world.

The legacy of Al-Andalus lives on in Spain, as Arabic language and culture revive in street signs, schools, and music, ...

It is probably best, given how treacherous these waters can be, to treat the “ethnoreligious diversity of Al-Andalus” — as Brian A. Catlos does in his 2018 book, “Kingdoms of Faith: A New ...

Between the 8th and 15th centuries, before the fall of Granada in 1492, Al-Andalus integrated various ways to manage its water reserves, even capitalizing on the development of Islamic ...

His Highness continued: “I have written many books on the subject of refuting Islam in Al Andalus and the reasons that led to that, and also the secret inquisition courts that practised execution, ...

They chose Córdoba as their capital and over the next 780 years, the Islamic nation of Al-Andalus slowly took shape. At its peak, Córdoba was a capital city of more than 300,000 inhabitants and ...