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This work examines the debt owed by Europe to the Moors for the Renaissance and the significant role played by the African in the Muslim invasions of the Iberian peninsula. While it focuses mainly on Spain and Portugal, it also examines the races and roots of the original North African before the later ethnic mix of the blackamoors and tawny Moors in the medieval period. The study ranges from the Moor in the literature of Cervantes and Shakespeare to his profound influence upon Europe's university system and the diffusion via this system of the ancient and medieval sciences. The Moors are shown to affect not only European mathematics and map-making, agriculture and architecture, but their markets, their music and their machines. The ethnicity of the Moor is re-examined, as is his unique contribution, both as creator and conduit, to the first seminal phase of the industrial revolution.Product Identifiers
PublisherTaylor & Francis Inc
ISBN-139781560005810
eBay Product ID (ePID)89656243
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Book TitleThe Golden Age of the Moor
AuthorIvan Van Sertima
FormatPaperback
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year1992
Number of Pages474 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height229mm
Item Width152mm
Item Weight716g
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EditorIvan Van Sertima
Country/Region of ManufactureUnited Kingdom
