Golden Age of the Moor

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Golden Age of the Moor

edited by Ivan Van Sertima

(Journal of African civilizations, v. 11)

Transaction Publishers, c1992

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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Description

This work examines the debt owed by Europe to the Moors for the Renaissance and the significant role played by the African in the Muslim invasions of the Iberian peninsula. While it focuses mainly on Spain and Portugal, it also examines the races and roots of the original North African before the later ethnic mix of the blackamoors and tawny Moors in the medieval period. The study ranges from the Moor in the literature of Cervantes and Shakespeare to his profound influence upon Europe's university system and the diffusion via this system of the ancient and medieval sciences. The Moors are shown to affect not only European mathematics and map-making, agriculture and architecture, but their markets, their music and their machines. The ethnicity of the Moor is re-examined, as is his unique contribution, both as creator and conduit, to the first seminal phase of the industrial revolution.

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  • NCID
    BA54136644
  • ISBN
    • 1560005815
  • Country Code
    us
  • Title Language Code
    eng
  • Text Language Code
    eng
  • Place of Publication
    New Brunswick, U.S.A.
  • Pages/Volumes
    474 p.
  • Size
    23 cm
  • Parent Bibliography ID
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