Watch free at ARTE In Spain, as in other European countries, visa applications from Americans who want to leave their home country have skyrocketed. President Donald Trump has unleashed a wave of departures from the US that began in his first term in 2016. Expatriation-related queries have increased by 1500% in search engines….
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By: Soukaina Ait-Elfakih | Islamonline.net The influence of the Islamic East persisted over the Islamic West and Al-Andalus until the political separation of both regions. Subsequently, the Islamic West and Al-Andalus emerged as new entities, embracing a distinct Fiqh doctrine and political strategy compared to the East. The jurisprudential mentality formed in Al-Andalus and the Islamic West in the Maliki…
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By: Lara Gibson | Date: June 13, 2025 | Newarab.com On a drive from Valencia to Alicante, I noticed a striking pattern — many place names sounded Arabic. I drove past towns called ‘Alfafar’, ‘Algemensi’, ‘Alcàsser’, and ‘Alzira’. That’s no coincidence: Alicante, for example, stems from al-Laqant, a name dating back to the Al-Andalus period when Arabic was the lingua…
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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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By: S.J. Pearce | Iberian-connections.yale.edu Since Washington Irving’s embassy to Spain (1826-1829) and his subsequent publication of stories and essays collected under the title “Tales of the Alhambra”, American readers, artists, and politicians have imagined and drawn inspiration from the medieval period of Spain’s history—before Spain was Spain as such. Anglophone fascination has continued through the contemporary period, often standing…
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By: Kevin Barrett | June 24, 2025 | kevinbarrett.substack.com We are traveling the length of historic al-Andalus, from Barcelona to Zaragoza to today’s Andalusia (southern Spain) asking ordinary people about convivencia. What is convivencia? It’s a friendlier term for “coexistence” that was originally used to describe the strikingly positive relationship between Muslim, Christian, and Jewish communities in Islamic Spain a.k.a.…
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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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