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Despite Spain being home to many North African immigrants, Spaniards who convert to Islam – particularly the order of Sufism – are a rarity. I wanted to know what motivated them to convert, and...
Dec 16, 2022 · For half a millennium, modern-day Spain was mostly ruled by Muslim kingdoms that presided over an extraordinary cultural experiment. The key to understanding Al-Andalus lies in its unorthodox social structure and its political location between two worlds.
Jan 17, 2023 · Heritage. Virgin Mary, Sufism and flamenco: Lost Muslim influences in Spain. Similarities between Sufi and Catholic rituals developed during Muslim rule in parts of the Iberian peninsula from the...
Mar 6, 2018 · The Nasrid sultan’s territory was the last Spanish stronghold of a great Muslim empire which had originally stretched to the Pyrenees and beyond, and had included northern Spanish cities...
The Muslim conquest of the Iberian Peninsula (Arabic: فَتْحُ الأَنْدَلُس), also known as the Arab conquest of Spain, by the Umayyad Caliphate occurred between approximately 711 and the 720s.
Sep 4, 2009 · Islamic Spain was a multi-cultural mix of Muslims, Christians and Jews. It brought a degree of civilisation to Europe that matched the heights of the Roman Empire and the Italian Renaissance ...
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Dec 25, 2013 · A small Sufi group of only 35 members resides in Villanueva de la Vera, a village of a little more than 2,000 people in the province of Caceres in the dry and hot Extremadura region. The 15-year-old community of Spanish converts to Islam comes mainly from Madrid.
