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Originally Posted by svin
I hope Mynydd will send them his "greetings" and thoughts about their gahtering.
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While in Jaén they should be taken on a tourist visit to the canyon of Despeñaperros, where legend has it that Moors were hurled down from it after the Battle of Las Navas.
Just as a suggestion and a nice reminder.
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Originally Posted by Aptrgangr
I noticed there is much bias when it comes to Muslims in Spain/Al-Andalus, German news/documentaries are not tired to mention it was a desireable time of peace and mutual understanding.
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Blame the myth on 19th century Romanticism.
The Fantasy of Al-Andalus
I was going to post another article about the Myth of Al-Andalus by a different author. But even if the author is Spanish, he is also an assistant professor at an American university, and he uses the dismantling of the myth of the convivence in Al-Andalus, to construct another myth which is to put Jews and Christians on an equal foot with regards to Muslim intolerance in Al-Andalus.
Though it is true that the Jews did suffer from persecution in Islamic Al-Andalus, this depended on the period and there were periods where the enjoyed a special status over that of Christian, since they did finance and collaborate in the Islamic invasion.
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