By: Cecilia Butini | May 14, 2025 | Hyphenonline.com Today, the 2.5 million Muslims living in Spain are concentrated in big cities such as Madrid and Barcelona — but in almost every corner of the country, you’ll find hidden and flamboyant Islamic architecture. For almost a millennium, the Iberian peninsula was part of a flourishing Muslim kingdom whose heritage runs…
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Celia Farber on Convivencia
Celia Farber is one of the most notable American journalists of the past 35 years. After achieving mainstream success at age 20, her verve and honesty served her well…until she took on Anthony Fauci and the AIDS industrial complex. By covering both sides of that story—including critiques of the virus-causes-AIDS hypothesis from a long list of distinguished scientists including Peter…
Read MoreConvivencia at the Alhambra
Canadian couple (Christian Iraqi and Punjabi background) in convivencia interview #5 Al-Andalus Tribune The Alhambra in Granada, Spain—the last Muslim stronghold in al-Andalus, which fell to Ferdinand and Isabella in 1492—symbolizes both the lost glories of Islamic Spain, and the ethnic cleansing that gave birth to modern ethno-nationalist Europe. Within a few decades of the fall of Granada, Spanish Muslims…
Read MoreThe New Morabitun Mosque of Granada and the Sensational Practices of Al Andaluz
“Granada. with its tradition of convivencia (coexistence, tolerance), is evidence that historically, Europe has been multi-religious. They (Granada Muslims) see the expulsion of the Muslims and Jews from Spain after 1492 as a form of genocide or ethnic cleansing and the beginning of a long Christian effort to drive Islam beyond Europe’s borders. They resist this attempt to obscure the…
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PALACE OF THE ALHAMBRA From Tales of the Alhambra by Washington Irving TO the traveller imbued with a feeling for the historical and poetical, so inseparably intertwined in the annals of romantic Spain, the Alhambra is as much an object of devotion as is the Caaba to all true Moslems. How many legends and traditions, true and fabulous,—how many songs…
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