History of the Conquest of Spain by the Arab-Moors: With a Sketch of the Civilization which They Achieved, and Imparted to Europe, Volume 2Little, Brown, 1881 |
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Abbasides Abdu-r-rahmán Abdullah Abú Abulfeda Africa Al Makkari Al-hakem Al-mansur Albaicin Alcaides Alfonso Alhama Alhambra Allah Almohades Almoravides Alpujarras Amir Andalus Andalusia Arab-Moors army As-samil Averroes Avicenna Baghdad Balj battle became Berbers Boabdil called capitulation captured Castile century Charlemagne chief Christian chronicle city of Granada Condé conquered conquerors conquest Cordova court Damascus death Dominacion dominion dynasty East Eastern Europe faith Fuente gates gave Gayangos give gold hands Haroun Highnesses Hisham Hisham II Historia de España historian hundred Ibn Jehaf Ibnu Islám Item Khalif king kingdom Korán language Makkari marched Meruan Mohammed Mohammedan monarch Moorish Moors Morocco Moslem Moslemah mosque Muley Baaudili Ommeyades palace Peninsula period person philosophy present prince received reconquest reign remains Rodrigo royal Saragossa says Seville soon Spain Spanish Arabs splendid story thousand throne tian tion Toledo tribes troops Ummeyah Valencia Wali Yusuf
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Page 19 - A victorious line of march had been prolonged above a thousand miles from the rock of Gibraltar to the banks of the Loire; the repetition of an equal space would have carried the Saracens to the confines of Poland and the Highlands of Scotland; the Rhine is not more impassable than the Nile or Euphrates, and the Arabian fleet might have sailed without a naval combat into the mouth of the Thames. Perhaps the interpretation of the Koran would now be taught in the schools of Oxford, and her pulpits...
Page 297 - If all this be historic truth (and I have entire confidence in Dr. Draper), well may he 'deplore the systematic manner in which the literature of Europe has contrived to put out of sight our scientific obligations to the Mahommedans.
Page 15 - Mohammedanism threatened to overspread Italy and Gaul, and on the other the ancient idolatry of Saxony and Friesland once more forced its way across the Rhine. In this peril of Christian institutions, a youthful prince of Germanic race, Karl Martell, arose as their champion...
Page 207 - ... Rodrigo returned, and pointing to the head which hung from the horse's collar,, dropping blood, he bade him look up, for there was the herb which should restore to him his appetite : the tongue, quoth he, which insulted you, is no longer a tongue, and the hand which wronged you is no longer a hand. And the old man arose and embraced his son and placed him above him at the table, saying, that he who had brought home that head should be the head of the house of Layn Calvo.
Page 435 - Sa'îd, that any man in power, or holding a situation under Government, considered himself obliged to have a library of his own, and would spare no trouble or expense in collecting books, merely in order that people might say, — Such a one has a very fine library, or, he possesses a unique copy of such a book, or, he has a copy of such a work in the hand- writing of euch a one.
Page 300 - Do not talk of the court of Baghdad and its glittering magnificence ; do not praise Persia and China and their manifold advantages ; for there is no spot on earth like Cordova,
Page 300 - ... the haltingplace of the noble, and the repository of the true and virtuous. Cordova was to Andalus what the head is to the body, or what the breast is to the lion.
Page 329 - ... fine — the eyebrows, the nose, the lips, and the fingers; four thick — the lower part of the back, the thighs, the calves of the legs, and the knees; four small — the ears, the breasts, the hands, and the feet.
Page 13 - Balattu-sh-shohada [the pavement of the martyrs], he himself being in the number of the slain. This disastrous battle is well known among the people of Andalus as the battle of Balatt.
Page 19 - ... A victorious line of march had been prolonged above a thousand miles from the Rock of Gibraltar to the banks of the Loire ; the repetition of an equal space would have carried the Saracens to the confines of Poland and the Highlands of Scotland ; the Rhine is not more impassable than the Nile or Euphrates, and the Arabian fleet might have sailed without a naval combat into the mouth of the Thames.