INQ-270 | Islamic Spain

Full Title: Islamic Spain

Topic Description:

For more than 700 years, parts of what today we know as Spain were controlled by Islamic peoples. As Western Europe was mired in its “dark ages,” the cities of Islamic Spain were glittering, sophisticated beacons of a different world, where Jews, Muslims, and Christians lived together. In their libraries and scriptoriums, the lost treasures of Europe’s classical past were translated from Arabic and Hebrew and reintroduced to European scholars, and Arabic advances in science, math, agriculture, and the arts were brought into Europe for the first time. What role did Islamic Spain play in the foundations of the European intellectual tradition? How did the three great monotheistic religions coexist in Islamic Spain?

Counts as Global? No

Topic Approved: November 2012