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Originally Posted by Bookpossum
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Neither was I.....
I read the book and am thinking it over. To give you some further context:
It isn’t a clear cut story of a separation between the Islamic world and Western world in the 17th century. A few centuries before, from the 7th to the 15th century, the greater part of Spain (except for the north) is governed by Muslim kingdoms from Arabia and North-Africa. The first are the Umayyads from Damascus and the last one the Nashrid-dynasty.Therefore the Andalusia’s cities, Sevilla, Córdoba, Granada and Cádiz become renowed throughout Europe and North-Africa as influential centres of trade, science, art, literature and architecture. In this era scolars travel to the Islamic scientists in Andalusia and Sicily. They translate scientific texts of Islamic scientists from Arabic and Greek into Latin. This contact attribute much to the Renaissance that starts in Italy.