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Howard Sargeant
Dictionary Plus Social Sciences
...Andalusia ( Andalucía ) A region of Spain and the southernmost of its autonomous communities. The ancient cities of Seville, Granada, Córdoba, and Cádiz are all found in the region, as are the many resorts of the Costa del Sol and the Costa de la Luz. The region’s interior is the hottest area of Europe. Land area 87,270 km 2 . Howard Sargeant...
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The Islamic World: Past and Present
...Andalusia Andalusia, the southernmost region of Spain, was for several centuries the jewel of the Muslim empire in the west. A center of commerce, art, and learning, medieval Andalusia supported a thriving and diverse community and became a symbol of the most renowned aspects of Muslim culture. Muslims still consider the loss of Andalusia—to Christian armies between the 1200s and 1400s—to be a deep historical injustice. Golden Age of Islam. Present-day Andalusia comprises the provinces of Huelva, Cádiz, Seville, Málaga, Córdoba, Jaén, Granada, and Almería, a...
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Jocelyn Hendrickson and Ronald Bruce St John
The Oxford Encyclopedia of Islam and Politics
...were also expelled. Muslims, Christians, and Jews. The population of Andalusia comprised a rich mixture of ethnic and religious groups. Berbers formed the majority of the initial conquering armies, and continued to migrate to Andalusia in later centuries. Originally, Arabs were a small minority, but their numbers rapidly increased as a result of intermarriage with the local Hispano-Roman population as well as through patron–client relationships. The number of Muslims in Andalusia also increased exponentially, through both reproduction and conversion....
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World Encyclopedia
... ( Andalucía ) Largest, most populous and southernmost region of Spain, crossed by the River Guadalquivir, and comprising eight provinces. The capital is Seville , other major cities include Málaga , Granada , and Córdoba . In the n are the Sierra Morena mountains, which are rich in minerals. In the s are the Sierra Nevada, rising to Mulhacén (Spain's highest point), at 3378m (11,411ft). Farms in the low-lying sw raise horses and cattle (including fighting bulls) and grow most of the country's cereals; other important crops are citrus fruits,...
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The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Islamic World
... . The name “Andalusia,” for Muslim Spain, is derived from “al-Andalus,” the name used in Arabic sources to indicate those parts of the Iberian peninsula under Muslim control between the initial invasion of 711 ce and the fall of Granada in 1492 ce The extent of this territory varied considerably over nearly eight centuries of Muslim rule, ranging from an early hold on most of the peninsula to the small Naṣrid kingdom of Granada during Muslim Spain's final two and a half centuries. “Andalucía,” the name of modern Spain's southernmost autonomous...
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Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Place Names (6 ed.)
...Andalusia ( Andalucía ) , Spain, USA 1. Spain: an autonomous community meaning the ‘Land of the Vandals’ (with the v dropped) and which is largely equivalent to the Roman province of Baetica. The Vandals were a Germanic people who sacked Rome and invaded Spain during the 5th century . Their name means ‘wanderers’. Their behaviour has given us the word vandalism. The former Arabic name Al-Andalus referred to the whole Iberian peninsula. As the Christian reconquest of the peninsula progressed the meaning changed to cover only the territory under Muslim control...
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The Oxford Dictionary of the Middle Ages
... Southernmost province of modern Spain whose name derives from the Arabic term for the Iberian Peninsula, much of which was under Arab-Islamic rule between 711 and 1492 . This rule extended over much of the peninsula in its first three centuries but diminished beginning in the late 11th century as a result of the expansion of the Christian states to the north. *Al-Andalus evolved from being part of the Umayyad administrative province of Ifriqiya (Tunisia and eastern Algeria; governed from *Qainouan ) ( 711–756 ) into a largely autonomous province...
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New Oxford Rhyming Dictionary (2 ed.)
... • cassia , glacier • apraxia , dyspraxia • banksia • eclampsia • estancia , fancier, financier, Landseer • intarsia , mahseer, Marcia, tarsier • bartsia , bilharzia • anorexia , dyslexia • intelligentsia • dyspepsia • Dacia , fascia • Felicia , Galicia, indicia, Lycia, Mysia • asphyxia , elixir, ixia • dossier • nausea • Andalusia , Lucia • overseer • Mercia • Hampshire • Berkshire • Caernarvonshire • Cheshire • differentia • Breconshire • Devonshire • Ayrshire • Galatia , Hypatia, solatia • alopecia , godetia, Helvetia • ...
John of Ávila, St (‘Apostle of Andalusia’) (1499/1500–69) Reference library
Matthew Mills
The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church (4 ed.)
...Ávila, St (‘Apostle of Andalusia’) ( 1499/1500–69 ) Born at Almodóvar del Campo (Ciudad Real), he first studied law at Salamanca ( 1513–17 ) and then, from 1520 to 1526, arts at Alcalá and the biblically based theology fostered there. Ordained in 1526, his plan to go to Mexico as a missionary failed, partly prob. because of difficulties arising from his Jewish paternal ancestry, and partly because Alonso de Manrique (abp of Seville and inquisitor general) wanted to keep him in Spain. His apostolate of preaching throughout Andalusia soon began and continued...
Andalusia
Contemporary Arab Ideology Reference library
‘Abdallāh Laroui
Islam in Transition: Muslim Perspectives (2 ed.)
...a revelation betrayed. Previously, God, tired of being humiliated by his chosen people, took refuge among the Arabs, but later reason, hemmed-in by despotism and obscurantism, withdrew, in spite, to the Christians and gave them glory, power, and riches despite their religion. Andalusia 7 is no longer a land like others, conquered then lost. It becomes the symbol of reason which unloved and too often abandoned, abandoned us in turn. Fortunately, it is not vindictive; it can be tamed again if we decide to return to ourselves. Such are the thoughts of the modern...
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Shaykh Muhammad ‘Abduh
Islam in Transition: Muslim Perspectives (2 ed.)
...of knowledge were means to faith and not its foes. By God's will they acquired some experience of refined culture and went off to their own territories thrilled with what they had gained from their wars—not to mention the great gains the travellers gathered in the lands of Andalusia by intercourse with its learned and polished society, whence they returned to their own peoples to taste the sweet fruits they had reaped. From that time on, there began to be much more traffic in ideas. In the West the desire for knowledge intensified and concern grew to break...
27 The History of the Book in the Iberian Peninsula Reference library
María Luisa López-Vidriero
The Oxford Companion to the Book
...years also witnessed the appearance of *Brocar , one of the principal printers during the reign of the Catholic Monarchs. He was active or had a commercial presence in Pamplona (Navarre), Logroño (Rioja), Alcalá de Henares, Burgos, Toledo and Salamanca (Castile), Seville (Andalusia), and Saragossa (Aragon). By European standards, 15 th -century Spain had a small printing output, although its presses produced more than Belgian or English workshops. Spanish printing was competitive chiefly because more than half of its publications were in the vernacular...
